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(Misc File Ops): Rewrite description of insert-file-literally.
authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:46:49 +0000 (16:46 +0000)
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:46:49 +0000 (16:46 +0000)
man/files.texi

index 531d50f6392b580a8a7fa22d249c68d0a7158801..49c310452b4bbf9750b828445a19de941918e8c5 100644 (file)
@@ -2434,11 +2434,11 @@ contents of the specified file into the current buffer at point,
 leaving point unchanged before the contents and the mark after them.
 
 @findex insert-file-literally
-  @kbd{M-x insert-file-literally} is like @kbd{C-x i}, except it
-inserts the specified file with no conversion of the contents: no
-format conversion (@pxref{Formatted Text}), no character code
-conversion (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and no automatic uncompression
-(@pxref{Compressed Files}).
+  @kbd{M-x insert-file-literally} is like @kbd{M-x insert-file},
+except the file is inserted ``literally'': it is treated as a sequence
+of @acronym{ASCII} characters with no special encoding or conversion,
+similar to the @kbd{M-x find-file-literally} command
+(@pxref{Visiting}).
 
 @findex write-region
   @kbd{M-x write-region} is the inverse of @kbd{M-x insert-file}; it