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diff --git a/man/glossary.texi b/man/glossary.texi index c347eb3f982..017630801a6 100644 --- a/man/glossary.texi +++ b/man/glossary.texi @@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ Input, Alt}. @item Argument See `numeric argument.' -@item ASCII character -An ASCII character is either an ASCII control character or an ASCII +@item @acronym{ASCII} character +An @acronym{ASCII} character is either an @acronym{ASCII} control character or an @acronym{ASCII} printing character. @xref{User Input}. -@item ASCII control character -An ASCII control character is the Control version of an upper-case +@item @acronym{ASCII} control character +An @acronym{ASCII} control character is the Control version of an upper-case letter, or the Control version of one of the characters @samp{@@[\]^_?}. -@item ASCII printing character -ASCII printing characters include letters, digits, space, and these +@item @acronym{ASCII} printing character +@acronym{ASCII} printing characters include letters, digits, space, and these punctuation characters: @samp{!@@#$%^& *()_-+=|\~` @{@}[]:;"' <>,.?/}. @item Auto Fill Mode @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ is typed. @xref{Completion}.@refill When a line of text is longer than the width of the window, it takes up more than one screen line when displayed. We say that the text line is continued, and all screen lines used for it after the -first are called continuation lines. @xref{Basic,Continuation,Basic -Editing}. A related Emacs feature is `filling' (q.v.@:). +first are called continuation lines. @xref{Continuation Lines}. +A related Emacs feature is `filling' (q.v.@:). @item Control Character A control character is a character that you type by holding down the @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ The cursor is the rectangle on the screen which indicates the position called point (q.v.@:) at which insertion and deletion takes place. The cursor is on or under the character that follows point. Often people speak of `the cursor' when, strictly speaking, they mean -`point.' @xref{Basic,Cursor,Basic Editing}. +`point.' @xref{Point,Cursor}. @item Customization Customization is making minor changes in the way Emacs works. It is @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ A defun is a major definition at the top level in a program. The name @key{DEL} is a character that runs the command to delete one character of text before the cursor. It is typically either the @key{DELETE} key or the @key{BACKSPACE} key, whichever one is easy to type. -@xref{Basic,DEL,Basic Editing}. +@xref{Erasing,DEL}. @item Deletion Deletion means erasing text without copying it into the kill ring @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ just names. All the non-Meta (q.v.@:) characters except for the Control (q.v.@:) characters are graphic characters. These include letters, digits, punctuation, and spaces; they do not include @key{RET} or @key{ESC}. In Emacs, typing a graphic character inserts -that character (in ordinary editing modes). @xref{Basic,,Basic Editing}. +that character (in ordinary editing modes). @xref{Inserting Text}. @item Highlighting Highlighting text means displaying it with a different foreground and/or @@ -621,8 +621,8 @@ keys, pressing or releasing mouse buttons, and switching between Emacs frames. @xref{User Input}. @item Input Method -An input method is a system for entering non-ASCII text characters by -typing sequences of ASCII characters (q.v.@:). @xref{Input Methods}. +An input method is a system for entering non-@acronym{ASCII} text characters by +typing sequences of @acronym{ASCII} characters (q.v.@:). @xref{Input Methods}. @item Insertion Insertion means copying text into the buffer, either from the keyboard @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ See `incremental search.' @item Justification Justification means adding extra spaces within lines of text to make them extend exactly to a specified width. -@xref{Filling,Justification}. +@xref{Format Justification}. @item Keyboard Macro Keyboard macros are a way of defining new Emacs commands from @@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ to exist. Any data within it, if not saved in a file, is lost. @item Language Environment Your choice of language environment specifies defaults for the input method (q.v.@:) and coding system (q.v.@:). @xref{Language -Environments}. These defaults are relevant if you edit non-ASCII text +Environments}. These defaults are relevant if you edit non-@acronym{ASCII} text (@pxref{International}). @item Line Wrapping @@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ A local value of a variable (q.v.@:) applies to only one buffer. @item @kbd{M-} @kbd{M-} in the name of a character is an abbreviation for @key{META}, one of the modifier keys that can accompany any character. -@xref{User Input}. +@xref{User Input,M-}. @item @kbd{M-C-} @kbd{M-C-} in the name of a character is an abbreviation for @@ -833,13 +833,13 @@ another. The usual way to move text by killing (q.v.@:) and then yanking (q.v.@:). @xref{Killing}. @item MULE -MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual non-ASCII text +MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual non-@acronym{ASCII} text using multibyte characters (q.v.@:). @xref{International}. @item Multibyte Character A multibyte character is a character that takes up several bytes in a -buffer. Emacs uses multibyte characters to represent non-ASCII text, -since the number of non-ASCII characters is much more than 256. +buffer. Emacs uses multibyte characters to represent non-@acronym{ASCII} text, +since the number of non-@acronym{ASCII} characters is much more than 256. @xref{International Chars, International Characters}. @item Named Mark @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ characters replace the existing text after point rather than pushing it to the right. @xref{Minor Modes}. @item Page -A page is a unit of text, delimited by formfeed characters (ASCII +A page is a unit of text, delimited by formfeed characters (@acronym{ASCII} control-L, code 014) coming at the beginning of a line. Some Emacs commands are provided for moving over and operating on pages. @xref{Pages}. @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ end of a word or expression. @xref{Syntax}. Point is the place in the buffer at which insertion and deletion occur. Point is considered to be between two characters, not at one character. The terminal's cursor (q.v.@:) indicates the location of -point. @xref{Basic,Point,Basic Editing}. +point. @xref{Point}. @item Prefix Argument See `numeric argument.' @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ convention. For example, an ``ordinary'' character as an Emacs command inserts itself; so in this context, a special character is any character that does not normally insert itself (such as @key{DEL}, for example), and quoting it makes it insert itself as if it were not special. Not -all contexts allow quoting. @xref{Basic,Quoting,Basic Editing}. +all contexts allow quoting. @xref{Inserting Text,Quoting}. @item Quoting File Names Quoting a file name turns off the special significance of constructs @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ systems. @xref{Scroll Bars}. @item Scrolling Scrolling means shifting the text in the Emacs window so as to see a -different part of the buffer. @xref{Display,Scrolling}. +different part of the buffer. @xref{Scrolling}. @item Searching Searching means moving point to the next occurrence of a specified @@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ using the secondary selection. @xref{Secondary Selection}. @item Selecting Selecting a buffer means making it the current (q.v.@:) buffer. -@xref{Buffers,Selecting}. +@xref{Select Buffer}. @item Selection Windowing systems allow an application program to specify @@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ two adjacent characters, words, balanced expressions (q.v.@:) or lines Truncating text lines in the display means leaving out any text on a line that does not fit within the right margin of the window displaying it. See also `continuation line.' -@xref{Basic,Truncation,Basic Editing}. +@xref{Continuation Lines,Truncation}. @item TTY See `text-only terminal.' @@ -1279,3 +1279,6 @@ undo a mistaken kill, or for copying or moving text. Some other systems call this ``pasting.'' @xref{Yanking}. @end table +@ignore + arch-tag: 0dd53ce1-5f09-4ac2-b13b-cf22b0f28d23 +@end ignore |