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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-06-20 10:47:48 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2001-06-20 10:47:48 +0000 |
commit | e75e59fd7f411484b8c066350498cbd3093b2a56 (patch) | |
tree | 4483e18b6b88da021251c83edc58e3a7e556bcba /man | |
parent | 4e3a22f8cd45d5c2a6bf022cc50a7f4b1ea61de5 (diff) | |
download | emacs-e75e59fd7f411484b8c066350498cbd3093b2a56.tar.gz |
Minor corrections.
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diff --git a/man/regs.texi b/man/regs.texi index 6e466cf0ad6..6052e04a711 100644 --- a/man/regs.texi +++ b/man/regs.texi @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ Emacs @dfn{registers} are compartments where you can save text, rectangles, positions, and other things for later use. Once you save text or a rectangle in a register, you can copy it into the buffer -once or many times; you can move point to a position saved in a -register once or many times. +once, or many times; you can move point to a position saved in a +register once, or many times. @findex view-register - Each register has a name, which is a single character. A register can + Each register has a name, which consists of a single character. +A register can store a piece of text, a rectangle, a position, a window configuration, or a file name, but only one thing at any given time. Whatever you store in a register remains there until you store something else in that @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ register. @findex jump-to-register The command @kbd{C-x r j @var{r}} moves point to the position recorded in register @var{r}. The register is not affected; it continues to -record the same position. You can jump to the saved position any number +hold the same position. You can jump to the saved position any number of times. If you use @kbd{C-x r j} to go to a saved position, but the buffer it @@ -86,9 +87,10 @@ Insert text from register @var{r} (@code{insert-register}). @kindex C-x r i @findex copy-to-register @findex insert-register - @kbd{C-x r s @var{r}} stores a copy of the text of the region into the -register named @var{r}. Given a numeric argument, @kbd{C-x r s @var{r}} -deletes the text from the buffer as well. + @kbd{C-x r s @var{r}} stores a copy of the text of the region into +the register named @var{r}. @kbd{C-u C-x r s @var{r}}, the same +command with a numeric argument, deletes the text from the buffer as +well. @kbd{C-x r i @var{r}} inserts in the buffer the text from register @var{r}. Normally it leaves point before the text and places the mark |