* regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables.

Fixes: debbugs:13565

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 8d976127ec96d7466dcd112b5b2061897b4a038d..97acd1c212fb9feacb7782f9c67fae70c8ce205f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-02-08  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+       * regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables
+       (bug#13565).
+
        * search.texi (Search Case): Rearrange text slightly to make it
        obvious that `M-c' also toggles sensitivity if `case-fold-search'
        is nil (bug#14726).

diff --git a/doc/emacs/regs.texi b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
index 8968cbbcffaab0becfa2c40184784714c0c9167d..5bc22e94ed33f7f3e2d6ef0011dd256e604e86d7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/regs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
@@ -240,10 +240,10 @@ numeric argument stores zero in the register.
 
   If you visit certain file names frequently, you can visit them more
 conveniently if you put their names in registers.  Here's the Lisp code
-used to put a file name in a register:
+used to put a file @var{name} into register @var{r}:
 
 @smallexample
-(set-register ?@var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
+(set-register @var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
 @end smallexample
 
 @need 3000