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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-03-08 07:57:31 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2001-03-08 07:57:31 +0000
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(M-x): Make it clear that bound commands can also be invoked by name.
From Simon Green <simon@elixir-studios.co.uk>.
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The Emacs commands that are used often or that must be quick to type are
bound to keys---short sequences of characters---for convenient use. Other
Emacs commands that do not need to be brief are not bound to keys; to run
-them, you must refer to them by name.
+them, you must refer to them by name. (Command bound to keys can also
+be invoked by their name.) @xref{Key Binding}, for the description of
+how to bind commands to keys.
A command name is, by convention, made up of one or more words,
separated by hyphens; for example, @code{auto-fill-mode} or