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Re: how do I know that the buffer is narrowed


From: Ehud Karni
Subject: Re: how do I know that the buffer is narrowed
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:13:55 +0200

On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:52:19 -0500, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote:
>
> Yes, there is a very good one: you unnecessarily assume that the buffer
> starts at position 1.

Both `what-cursor-position' and `what-line' (in simple.el) do this
assumption. After looking in buffer.h and seeing:
    /* Position of beginning of buffer.  */
    #define BEG (1)
I don't see any reason NOT to assume this.

Ehud.


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