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diff --git a/man/mark.texi b/man/mark.texi index 5940eda0854..c9268ecfea5 100644 --- a/man/mark.texi +++ b/man/mark.texi @@ -14,16 +14,23 @@ end. The text between point and the mark is called @dfn{the region}. Emacs highlights the region whenever there is one, if you enable Transient Mark mode (@pxref{Transient Mark}). - You can move point or the mark to adjust the boundaries of the region. -It doesn't matter which one is set first chronologically, or which one -comes earlier in the text. Once the mark has been set, it remains where -you put it until you set it again at another place. Each Emacs buffer -has its own mark, so that when you return to a buffer that had been -selected previously, it has the same mark it had before. + Certain Emacs commands set the mark; other editing commands do not +affect it, so the mark remains where you set it last. Each Emacs +buffer has its own mark, and setting the mark in one buffer has no +effect on other buffers' marks. When you return to a buffer that had +been selected previously, its mark is at the same place as before. + + The ends of the region are always point and the mark. It doesn't +matter which of them was put in its current place first, or which one +comes earlier in the text---the region starts from point or the mark +(whichever comes first), and ends at point or the mark (whichever +comes last). Every time you move point, or set the mark in a new +place, the region changes. Many commands that insert text, such as @kbd{C-y} (@code{yank}) and -@kbd{M-x insert-buffer}, position point and the mark at opposite ends of -the inserted text, so that the region contains the text just inserted. +@kbd{M-x insert-buffer}, position point and the mark at opposite ends +of the inserted text, so that the region consists of the text just +inserted. Aside from delimiting the region, the mark is also useful for remembering a spot that you may want to go back to. To make this |