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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-12-27 16:19:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-12-27 16:19:09 +0200 |
| commit | 3b199614ccc81ae35218a93c7c09aee49ceed3fd (patch) | |
| tree | 5319ff544e40909d9a9d1a019384047dc77e72e4 /doc/emacs | |
| parent | d627fc7d55f4c1f61bdca970889f5009933ab742 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-3b199614ccc81ae35218a93c7c09aee49ceed3fd.tar.gz | |
Minor improvements of buffer documentation
* doc/emacs/buffers.texi (Buffers): Say that buffers are killed
when no longer needed. Suggested by Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/buffers.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi index 7b4e070d1b9..fc2ee6f638d 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ the directory listing. If you send a message with @kbd{C-x m}, a buffer is used to hold the text of the message. When you ask for a command's documentation, that appears in a buffer named @file{*Help*}. + Buffers exist as long as they are in use, and are deleted +(``killed'') when no longer needed, either by you (@pxref{Kill +Buffer}) or by Emacs (e.g., when you exit Emacs, @pxref{Exiting}). + Each buffer has a unique name, which can be of any length. When a buffer is displayed in a window, its name is shown in the mode line (@pxref{Mode Line}). The distinction between upper and lower case |