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diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index 531d50f6392..4644f137475 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -1153,13 +1153,14 @@ recover are present in Emacs buffers. You should then save them. Only this---saving them---updates the files themselves. @vindex auto-save-list-file-prefix - Emacs records interrupted sessions for later recovery in files named + Emacs records information about interrupted sessions for later +recovery in files named @file{~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-@var{pid}-@var{hostname}}. All -of this name except @file{@var{pid}-@var{hostname}} comes from the -value of @code{auto-save-list-file-prefix}. You can record sessions -in a different place by customizing that variable. If you set -@code{auto-save-list-file-prefix} to @code{nil} in your @file{.emacs} -file, sessions are not recorded for recovery. +of this name except the @file{@var{pid}-@var{hostname}} part comes +from the value of @code{auto-save-list-file-prefix}. You can record +sessions in a different place by customizing that variable. If you +set @code{auto-save-list-file-prefix} to @code{nil} in your +@file{.emacs} file, sessions are not recorded for recovery. @node File Aliases @section File Name Aliases @@ -2434,11 +2435,11 @@ contents of the specified file into the current buffer at point, leaving point unchanged before the contents and the mark after them. @findex insert-file-literally - @kbd{M-x insert-file-literally} is like @kbd{C-x i}, except it -inserts the specified file with no conversion of the contents: no -format conversion (@pxref{Formatted Text}), no character code -conversion (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and no automatic uncompression -(@pxref{Compressed Files}). + @kbd{M-x insert-file-literally} is like @kbd{M-x insert-file}, +except the file is inserted ``literally'': it is treated as a sequence +of @acronym{ASCII} characters with no special encoding or conversion, +similar to the @kbd{M-x find-file-literally} command +(@pxref{Visiting}). @findex write-region @kbd{M-x write-region} is the inverse of @kbd{M-x insert-file}; it @@ -2815,13 +2816,8 @@ works only when Emacs can display the specific image type. @findex thumbs-mode @findex mode, thumbs - Thumbs mode is a major mode for viewing directories containing many -image files. To use it, type @kbd{M-x thumbs} and specify the -directory to view. The images in that directory will be displayed in -a @samp{Thumbs} buffer as @dfn{thumbnails}; type @kbd{RET} on a -thumbnail to view the full-size image. Thumbs mode requires the -@file{convert} program, which is part of the ImageMagick software -package. + See also the Tumme package (@pxref{Thumbnails}) for viewing images +as thumbnails. @node Filesets @section Filesets |