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84 can use keystrokes or the mouse cursor to move point through the text 84 can use keystrokes or the mouse cursor to move point through the text
85 and edit the text at different places. 85 and edit the text at different places.
86 86
87 While the cursor appears to point @var{at} a character, you should 87 While the cursor appears to point @var{at} a character, you should
88 think of point as @var{between} two characters: it points @var{before} 88 think of point as @var{between} two characters: it points @var{before}
89 the character on which the cursor appears. Sometimes people speak 89 the character on which the cursor appears. The exception is at the
90 of ``the cursor'' when they mean ``point,'' or speak of commands that 90 end of the line, where the cursor appears after the last character of
91 move point as ``cursor motion'' commands. 91 the line. Where the display is capable, the cursor at the end of the
92 line will appear differently from a cursor over whitespace at the end
93 of the line. (In an X Windows frame, the end-of-line cursor is half
94 the width of a within-line cursor.) Sometimes people speak of ``the
95 cursor'' when they mean ``point,'' or speak of commands that move
96 point as ``cursor motion'' commands.
92 97
93 Each XEmacs frame has only one cursor. When output is in progress, the cursor 98 Each XEmacs frame has only one cursor. When output is in progress, the cursor
94 must appear where the typing is being done. This does not mean that 99 must appear where the typing is being done. This does not mean that
95 point is moving. It is only that XEmacs has no way to show you the 100 point is moving. It is only that XEmacs has no way to show you the
96 location of point except when the terminal is idle. 101 location of point except when the terminal is idle.