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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buffer-substring'. |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:53:49 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> +into the current buffer before point. The text inserted is the region
> +between @var{start} (inclusive) and @var{end} (exclusive). (These
That is misleading: buffer positions are *between* characters (or
alternatively, characters are placed *between* buffer positions).
Talking about "inclusive" and "exclusive" here makes it sound like
buffer positions are placed *on* characters.
Stefan
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