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diff --git a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi index d0ec1103580..d2783bcb0ba 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ the file's text. Each time you invoke Dired, a buffer is used to hold 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 @samp{*Help*}. +command's documentation, that appears in a buffer named @file{*Help*}. 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 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ buffer is displayed in a window, its name is shown in the mode line matters in buffer names. Most buffers are made by visiting files, and their names are derived from the files' names; however, you can also create an empty buffer with any name you want. A newly started Emacs -has several buffers, including one named @samp{*scratch*}, which can +has several buffers, including one named @file{*scratch*}, which can be used for evaluating Lisp expressions and is not associated with any file (@pxref{Lisp Interaction}). @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ CRM Buffer Size Mode File @end smallexample @noindent -The buffer @samp{*Help*} was made by a help request (@pxref{Help}); it +The buffer @file{*Help*} was made by a help request (@pxref{Help}); it is not visiting any file. The buffer @code{src} was made by Dired on the directory @file{~/cvs/emacs/src/}. You can list only buffers that are visiting files by giving the command a prefix argument, as in @@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ happens and no renaming is done. @kbd{M-x rename-uniquely} renames the current buffer to a similar name with a numeric suffix added to make it both different and unique. This command does not need an argument. It is useful for creating -multiple shell buffers: if you rename the @samp{*shell*} buffer, then +multiple shell buffers: if you rename the @file{*shell*} buffer, then do @kbd{M-x shell} again, it makes a new shell buffer named -@samp{*shell*}; meanwhile, the old shell buffer continues to exist +@file{*shell*}; meanwhile, the old shell buffer continues to exist under its new name. This method is also good for mail buffers, compilation buffers, and most Emacs features that create special buffers with particular names. (With some of these features, such as @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ operations on buffers, through an interface similar to Dired @findex buffer-menu @findex buffer-menu-other-window To use the buffer menu, type @kbd{C-x C-b} and switch to the window -displaying the @samp{*Buffer List*} buffer. You can also type +displaying the @file{*Buffer List*} buffer. You can also type @kbd{M-x buffer-menu} to open the buffer menu in the selected window. Alternatively, the command @kbd{M-x buffer-menu-other-window} opens the buffer menu in another window, and selects that window. @@ -409,11 +409,11 @@ Quit the buffer menu---immediately display the most recent formerly visible buffer in its place. @item @key{RET} @itemx f -Immediately select this line's buffer in place of the @samp{*Buffer +Immediately select this line's buffer in place of the @file{*Buffer List*} buffer. @item o Immediately select this line's buffer in another window as if by -@kbd{C-x 4 b}, leaving @samp{*Buffer List*} visible. +@kbd{C-x 4 b}, leaving @file{*Buffer List*} visible. @item C-o Immediately display this line's buffer in another window, but don't select the window. @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Immediately select this line's buffer in a full-screen window. @item 2 Immediately set up two windows, with this line's buffer selected in one, and the previously current buffer (aside from the buffer -@samp{*Buffer List*}) displayed in the other. +@file{*Buffer List*}) displayed in the other. @item b Bury the buffer listed on this line. @item m @@ -448,19 +448,19 @@ the inclusion of such buffers in the buffer list. suitable buffer, and turn on Buffer Menu mode in it. Everything else described above is implemented by the special commands provided in Buffer Menu mode. One consequence of this is that you can switch from -the @samp{*Buffer List*} buffer to another Emacs buffer, and edit -there. You can reselect the @samp{*Buffer List*} buffer later, to +the @file{*Buffer List*} buffer to another Emacs buffer, and edit +there. You can reselect the @file{*Buffer List*} buffer later, to perform the operations already requested, or you can kill it, or pay no further attention to it. - Normally, the buffer @samp{*Buffer List*} is not updated + Normally, the buffer @file{*Buffer List*} is not updated automatically when buffers are created and killed; its contents are just text. If you have created, deleted or renamed buffers, the way -to update @samp{*Buffer List*} to show what you have done is to type +to update @file{*Buffer List*} to show what you have done is to type @kbd{g} (@code{revert-buffer}). You can make this happen regularly every @code{auto-revert-interval} seconds if you enable Auto Revert mode in this buffer, as long as it is not marked modified. Global -Auto Revert mode applies to the @samp{*Buffer List*} buffer only if +Auto Revert mode applies to the @file{*Buffer List*} buffer only if @code{global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers} is non-@code{nil}. @iftex @inforef{Autorevert,, emacs-xtra}, for details. |