(indent-relative-maybe, indent-relative): Doc fix.

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 450f5b28298..9ff4682c231 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2001-06-22  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
+	* indent.el (indent-relative-maybe, indent-relative): Doc fix.
+
 	* menu-bar.el (toggle-debug-on-quit, toggle-debug-on-error): Doc
 	fix.
 
diff --git a/lisp/indent.el b/lisp/indent.el
index a558ff26d5b..d097a02c833 100644
--- a/lisp/indent.el
+++ b/lisp/indent.el
@@ -345,7 +345,11 @@ If COLUMN is nil, then indent each line according to the mode."
       (move-marker end nil))))
 
 (defun indent-relative-maybe ()
-  "Indent a new line like previous nonblank line."
+  "Indent a new line like previous nonblank line.
+If the previous nonblank line has no indent points beyond the
+column point starts at, this command does nothing.
+
+See also `indent-relative'."
   (interactive)
   (indent-relative t))
 
@@ -355,7 +359,11 @@ An indent point is a non-whitespace character following whitespace.
 The following line shows the indentation points in this line.
     ^         ^    ^     ^   ^           ^      ^  ^    ^
 If the previous nonblank line has no indent points beyond the
-column point starts at, `tab-to-tab-stop' is done instead."
+column point starts at, `tab-to-tab-stop' is done instead, unless
+this command is invoked with a numeric argument, in which case it
+does nothing.
+
+See also `indent-relative-maybe'."
   (interactive "P")
   (if (and abbrev-mode
 	   (eq (char-syntax (preceding-char)) ?w))