Re: what is the point of point-min?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jesper Harder wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Besides the point-min confusion, kill-region should be called with
> > (region-beginning) and (region-end) which usually -- but not always
> > -- correspond to (point) and (mark).
>
> Is this the way they work:
>
> (defun region-beginning ()
>   (min (point) (mark)))
>
> (defun region-end ()
>   (max (point) (mark)))
>
> or are there other instances where `region-beginning' is different
> from `point'?

That's not how they're implemented (see editfns.c), but the result is
the same according to The Region node of the Emacs Lisp manual.

--
Kevin Rodgers