[Emacs-diffs] Re: Changes to emacs/man/entering.texi

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

> -  But starting a new Emacs each time you want to edit a different file
> -does not make sense.  This would fail to take advantage of Emacs's
> -ability to visit more than one file in a single editing session, and
> -it would lose the other accumulated context, such as the kill ring,
> -registers, undo history, and mark ring, that are useful for operating
> -on multiple files or even one.

> +  It's not smart to start Emacs afresh for every file you edit.  Emacs
> +can visit more than one file in a single editing session, and upon
> +exit Emacs loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill ring,
> +registers, undo history, and mark ring.  These features are useful for
> +operating on multiple files, or even one.  If you kill Emacs after
> +each file, you don't take advantage of them.

I actually think parts of the old text was better.

But these small change makes the new text ok:

> +can visit more than one file in a single editing session, and upon
> +exit Emacs loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill ring,


can visit more than one file in a single editing session, but upon
                                                          ^^^
exit, you may lose valuable accumulated context, such as the kill ring,
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> +  There are two commands for exiting Emacs, and three kinds of exiting:
> address@hidden Emacs, @dfn{Iconifying} Emacs, and @dfn{killing}
> +Emacs.

Why is Iconifying upper case?


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