Re: New primitive buffer-position-at

[Stefan Monnier]

> They are the same co-ordinates as used in window-at i.e in chars and 0 based.
> Perhaps I should add:

> The top left corner of the frame is considered to be row 0, column 0.

> to the documentation.

Yes, the docstring should make it clear.  It can refer to window-at.

>> Also, in what way is it different from (posn-point (posn-at-x-y X Y)) ?
>> 
>> 
>> Stefan "who's wondering what posn-at-x-y does on a tty"

> The posn-* family of commands (posn-point, posn-object etc) only work if
> Emacs provides the proper click event in the first place which it doesn't
> currently do on a text terminal or xterm.  My patches to xt-mouse.el and
> t-mouse.el provide them in lisp i.e with these patches the posn-* family
> of commands will work on a text terminal or xterm.

Try C-h f posn-at-x-y RET


        Stefan