Re: How come I keep getting nil on point-max?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

grocery_stocker <cdalten@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 28, 11:42 am, Ralf Angeli <dev.n...@caeruleus.net> wrote:
>> * grocery stocker (2007-04-28) writes:
>>
>> > However, when I do
>> > (let (start (point-max)))
>>
>> > I get:
>> > nil
>>
>> > And when I do
>> > (let (start (point-max))
>> >         (message "The value is: %d" start))
>>
>> (let ((start (point-max))) ...
>>
>
> Okay, I did that, now when I go
> (let ((start (point-min)) ((end (point-max)))
>         (message "The value is: %d %d" start end ))

You should learn this: C-h f

Whenever you start typing (something ...
type C-h f

If you have the cursor just after something, then it should be
selected and you need to type just RET


So type:  ( l e t C-h f RET
and read!

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