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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buf
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buffer-substring'. |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:19:37 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:53:49 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
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> > +into the current buffer before point. The text inserted is the region
> > +between @var{start} (inclusive) and @var{end} (exclusive). (These
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> 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.
Are you saying that characters don't have positions? We say
"character at POSITION", and we mean that. What is misleading here?