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Grammar fixes for mark.texi
From: |
Eric Hanchrow |
Subject: |
Grammar fixes for mark.texi |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:30:37 -0700 |
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===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/man/mark.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -w -u -r1.23 mark.texi
--- man/mark.texi 2 Nov 2003 07:01:11 -0000 1.23
+++ man/mark.texi 6 Aug 2004 15:08:52 -0000
@@ -247,20 +247,20 @@
@item C-u C-x C-x
@kindex C-u C-x C-x
-Activate the mark without changing it, enable Transient Mark mode just
+Activate the mark without changing it: enable Transient Mark mode just
once until the mark is deactivated. (This is the @kbd{C-x C-x} command,
@code{exchange-point-and-mark}, with a prefix argument.)
@end table
One of the secondary features of Transient Mark mode is that certain
-commands operate on the region when there is an active region. If you
-don't use Transient Mark mode, the region once set never becomes
-inactive, so there is no way these commands to make such a
+commands operate on the region, when there is an active region. If you
+don't use Transient Mark mode, the region, once set, never becomes
+inactive, so there is no way for these commands to make such a
distinction. Enabling Transient Mark mode momentarily gives you a way
to use these commands on the region.
- The other way momentarily use of Transient Mark mode is useful
-is that it highlights the region for the time being.
+ Momentary use of Transient Mark mode is also useful
+to highlight the region for the time being.
@node Using Region
@section Operating on the Region
Index: src/.gdbinit
In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2004-08-06 on debian
configured using `configure '--cache-file=/usr/local/src/config.cache''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: nil
locale-coding-system: nil
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Diff
Minor modes in effect:
erc-autojoin-mode: t
erc-button-mode: t
erc-ring-mode: t
erc-pcomplete-mode: t
erc-track-mode: t
erc-fill-mode: t
erc-netsplit-mode: t
desktop-save-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
iswitchb-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
Recent input:
SPC t o SPC i n s e r t SPC ESC b a u t m DEL o m a
t i c a l l y SPC C-e t h e SPC c o r r e c t SPC a
m o u n t . ESC 0 C-l C-v C-c C-c C-x b d i f f RET
C-x C-f / t m p / x RET P N N ESC 0 C-l RET C-x o C-n
n RET C-x 0 C-u C-p C-p C-p C-s C-y C-s C-a ESC w ESC
x ESC p RET
Recent messages:
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Wrote /home/erich/Mail/archive/sent
Sending...done
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--
In the practice of computing, where we have so much latitude for
making a mess of it, mathematical elegance is not a dispensable
luxury, but a matter of life and death.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra: My Hopes of Computing Science (EWD 709)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd07xx/EWD709.PDF
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