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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/m-x.texi
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Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/m-x.texi |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:25:17 +0000 |
Index: emacs/man/m-x.texi
diff -u emacs/man/m-x.texi:1.7 emacs/man/m-x.texi:1.8
--- emacs/man/m-x.texi:1.7 Wed Aug 10 15:14:33 2005
+++ emacs/man/m-x.texi Tue Jan 31 18:25:17 2006
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
Every Emacs command has a name that you can use to run it. Commands
that are used often, or that must be quick to type, are also bound to
keys---short sequences of characters---for convenient use. You can
-run them by name if you don't remember the keys. Other Emacs commands
-that do not need to be quick are not bound to keys; the only way to
-run them is by name. @xref{Key Bindings}, for the description of
-how to bind commands to keys.
+run them by typing the keys, or run them by name if you don't remember
+the keys. Other Emacs commands that do not need to be quick are not
+bound to keys; the only way to run them is by name. @xref{Key
+Bindings}, for the description of how to bind commands to keys.
By convention, a command name consists of one or more words,
separated by hyphens; for example, @code{auto-fill-mode} or
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
the key @kbd{C-f}. You can run any Emacs command by name using
@kbd{M-x}, whether or not any keys are bound to it.
- If you type @kbd{C-g} while the command name is being read, you
-cancel the @kbd{M-x} command and get out of the minibuffer, ending up
-at command level.
+ If you type @kbd{C-g} while the command name is being read, that
+cancels the @kbd{M-x} command and exits the minibuffer, so you end up
+back at command level.
To pass a numeric argument to the command you are invoking with
@kbd{M-x}, specify the numeric argument before the @kbd{M-x}. @kbd{M-x}
@@ -58,10 +58,11 @@
@vindex suggest-key-bindings
If the command you type has a key binding of its own, Emacs mentions
-this in the echo area. For example, if you type @kbd{M-x
-forward-word}, the message says that you can run the same command more
-easily by typing @kbd{M-f}. You can turn off these messages by
-setting @code{suggest-key-bindings} to @code{nil}.
+this in the echo area after running the command. For example, if you
+type @kbd{M-x forward-word}, the message says that you can run the
+same command more easily by typing @kbd{M-f}. You can turn off these
+messages by setting the variable @code{suggest-key-bindings} to
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Normally, when describing in this manual a command that is run by
name, we omit the @key{RET} that is needed to terminate the name. Thus
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