@vindex font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function
Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification)
relies on analysis of the syntactic structure of the buffer text. For
-the purposes of speed, some modes including C mode and Lisp mode rely on
+the purposes of speed, some modes, including C mode and Lisp mode, rely on
a special convention: an open-parenthesis in the leftmost column always
defines the @w{beginning} of a defun, and is thus always outside any string
or comment. (@xref{Defuns}.) If you don't follow this convention,
@cindex characters (in text)
ASCII printing characters (octal codes 040 through 0176) in Emacs
-buffers are displayed with their graphics. So are non-ASCII multibyte
+buffers are displayed with their graphics, as are non-ASCII multibyte
printing characters (octal codes above 0400).
Some ASCII control characters are displayed in special ways. The
to start, or zero meaning don't echo at all. @xref{Echo Area}.
@vindex ctl-arrow
- If the variable @code{ctl-arrow} is @code{nil}, control characters in
+ If the variable @code{ctl-arrow} is @code{nil}, all control characters in
the buffer are displayed with octal escape sequences, except for newline
and tab. Altering the value of @code{ctl-arrow} makes it local to the
current buffer; until that time, the default value is in effect. The
register once or many times.
@findex view-register
- Each register has a name which is a single character. A register can
+ Each register has a name, which is a single character. A register can
store a piece of text, a rectangle, a position, a window configuration,
or a file name, but only one thing at any given time. Whatever you
store in a register remains there until you store something else in that
Bookmark position values are saved with surrounding context, so that
@code{bookmark-jump} can find the proper position even if the file is
modified slightly. The variable @code{bookmark-search-size} says how
-many characters of context to record, on each side of the bookmark's
+many characters of context to record on each side of the bookmark's
position.
Here are some additional commands for working with bookmarks: