Re: point-min and 1

[David Kastrup]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>>> I'd opt for two new primitives `goto-point-min' and `goto-point-max'.
>>
>> And `goto-line-noninteractively' ;)
>
> Hmmm.... Every second use of `point-min' is within the idiom (goto-char
> (point-min)).  So I think I have a point here.

That's exactly why you don't have a point.  Every second use of "think"
is within the idiom "I think", and yet we don't use a separate word for
it.  Because we don't need a separate word for a common simple idiom
comprised of elementary parts.

-- 
David Kastrup