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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-05-11 12:32:31 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-05-11 12:32:31 +0300
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downloademacs-e6bf19cfffaca98da4d8f83fb3675dc972337661.tar.gz
Fix inaccuracies in "Shell Ring" node of Emacs manual
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (Shell Ring): Don't mention 'M-s' and don't insist on Shell history commands being "jsut like" similar commands that operate on minibuffer history. Reported by Jorge <jorge+list@disroot.org> in emacs-manual-bugs.
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@@ -1145,10 +1145,11 @@ Display the buffer's history of shell commands in another window
Shell buffers provide a history of previously entered shell
commands. To reuse shell commands from the history, use the editing
-commands @kbd{M-p}, @kbd{M-n}, @kbd{M-r} and @kbd{M-s}. These work
-just like the minibuffer history commands (@pxref{Minibuffer
+commands @kbd{M-p}, @kbd{M-n}, and @kbd{M-r}. These work
+similar to the minibuffer history commands (@pxref{Minibuffer
History}), except that they operate within the Shell buffer rather
-than the minibuffer.
+than the minibuffer, and @code{M-r} in a Shell buffer invokes
+incremental search through shell command history.
@kbd{M-p} fetches an earlier shell command to the end of the shell
buffer. Successive use of @kbd{M-p} fetches successively earlier