* doc/emacs/anti.texi (Antinews): Replace 25.2 with 25.3.
Reported by Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> in
emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
* doc/emacs/custom.texi (Function Keys): Improve wording.
Suggested by clemens.radermacher@posteo.de in
emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
* doc/emacs/misc.texi (History References): Improve punctuation.
(Terminal emulator): Fix a typo.
(Term Mode): Remove redundant repeated text.
(Invoking emacsclient): Improve wording. Suggested by Alberto
Sartori <alberto.sartori@sissa.it> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Visiting): Fix last change.
@c Update the emacs.texi Antinews menu entry with the above version number.
For those users who live backwards in time, here is information
-about downgrading to Emacs version 25.2. We hope you will enjoy the
+about downgrading to Emacs version 25.3. We hope you will enjoy the
greater simplicity that results from the absence of many @w{Emacs
@value{EMACSVER}} features.
Emacs versions to have that feature back.)
@item
-Emacs 25.2 no longer supports magic signatures of the form
+Emacs 25.3 no longer supports magic signatures of the form
@samp{#!/usr/bin/env @var{interpreter}} in scripts. Moving back in
time means you are getting closer to the ideal of the original Unix
design where all the interpreters lived in a single directory
The double-buffering feature of Emacs display on X has been removed.
We decided that its complexity and a few random surprising
side-effects aren't justified by the gains, even though those gains
-were hailed in some quarters. Yes, Emacs 25.2 will flicker in some
+were hailed in some quarters. Yes, Emacs 25.3 will flicker in some
use cases, but we are sure Emacs users will be able to suck it, as
they have been doing for years. Since this feature is gone, we've
also removed the @code{inhibit-double-buffering} frame parameter,
@item
The complication known as ``single-line horizontal scrolling'' is no
-longer with you in Emacs 25.2. This feature was a bow to ``other
+longer with you in Emacs 25.3. This feature was a bow to ``other
editors''; instead, let those other editors bow to Emacs by hscrolling
the entire window at all times. Repeat after me: ``The Emacs way is
the Only Way!''
@item
To keep up with decreasing computer memory capacity and disk space, many
-other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 25.2.
+other functions and files have been eliminated in Emacs 25.3.
@end itemize
Many keyboards have a numeric keypad on the right hand side.
The numeric keys in the keypad double up as cursor motion keys,
toggled by a key labeled @samp{Num Lock}. By default, Emacs
-translates these keys to the corresponding keys in the main keyboard.
+translates these keys to the corresponding keys on the main keyboard.
For example, when @samp{Num Lock} is on, the key labeled @samp{8} on
the numeric keypad produces @code{kp-8}, which is translated to
@kbd{8}; when @samp{Num Lock} is off, the same key produces
On text-mode terminals and on graphical displays when Emacs was
built without a GUI toolkit, you can visit files via the menu-bar
-@samp{File} menu, which has a @samp{Visit New File} and @samp{Open
-File} items.
+@samp{File} menu, which has the @samp{Visit New File} and the
+@samp{Open File} items.
Each time you visit a file, Emacs automatically scans its contents
to detect what character encoding and end-of-line convention it uses,
@subsubsection Shell History References
@cindex history reference
- Various shells including csh and bash support @dfn{history
+ Various shells, including csh and bash, support @dfn{history
references} that begin with @samp{!} and @samp{^}. Shell mode
recognizes these constructs, and can perform the history substitution
for you.
@code{term-color-underline}, and @code{term-color-bold}.
@xref{Faces}.
- You can also Term mode to communicate with a device connected to a
-serial port. @xref{Serial Terminal}.
+ You can also use Term mode to communicate with a device connected to
+a serial port. @xref{Serial Terminal}.
The file name used to load the subshell is determined the same way
as for Shell mode. To make multiple terminal emulators, rename the
@cindex Term mode
@cindex mode, Term
- The terminal emulator uses Term mode, which has two input modes. In
-line mode, Term basically acts like Shell mode (@pxref{Shell Mode}).
-In char mode, each character is sent directly to the subshell, except
-for the Term escape character, normally @kbd{C-c}.
-
- To switch between line and char mode, use these commands:
+ To switch between line and char mode in Term mode, use these
+commands:
@table @kbd
@kindex C-c C-j @r{(Term mode)}
called @command{emacsclient}.
You can also force @command{emacsclient} to open a new frame on a
-graphical display, or on a text terminal, using the @samp{-c} and
-@samp{-t} options. @xref{emacsclient Options}.
+graphical display using the @samp{-c} option, or on a text terminal
+using the @samp{-t} option. @xref{emacsclient Options}.
If you are running on a single text terminal, you can switch between
@command{emacsclient}'s shell and the Emacs server using one of two
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