Re: master f117b5df4d: Add new functions eol and bol

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> That isn't a very good name.  point-bol screams "point what?", where
> "what" could either be "at", "after", or "before".

Does `point-min' scream the same thing?

> How about "pos-at-bol" or "bol-from-point" (which would also accept an
> optional arg POINT, telling the function where to search from?)

I don't think that would be very useful in general -- if you look at how
these functions are used, you're usually traversing a buffer, and then
you find something, and then you want to do something with what you
find.