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changeset 61595:60e0429c79b1
(Positions): Clarify further.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:49:52 +0000 |
| parents | 7a990909b5f9 |
| children | 164ca32df6ab |
| files | lispref/positions.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/positions.texi Sun Apr 17 15:46:33 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/positions.texi Sun Apr 17 15:49:52 2005 +0000 @@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ be a position (an integer), but accept a marker as a substitute, normally ignore which buffer the marker points into; they convert the marker to an integer, and use that integer, exactly as if you had -passed the integer as the argument. Markers used this way usually -point to a position in the buffer that the function will operate on, -but if not, they are converted to integers anyway. @xref{Markers}. +passed the integer as the argument, even if the marker points to the +``wrong'' buffer. A marker that points nowhere cannot convert to an +integer; using it instead of an integer causes an error. +@xref{Markers}. See also the ``field'' feature (@pxref{Fields}), which provides functions that are used by many cursor-motion commands.