From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:49:53 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Minor clarification about insert-buffer. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.105~509 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33fa669197059524b286107cbd7c4684b41072df;p=emacs.git Minor clarification about insert-buffer. --- diff --git a/man/killing.texi b/man/killing.texi index 37460f0ff60..7b1dc865c94 100644 --- a/man/killing.texi +++ b/man/killing.texi @@ -478,12 +478,13 @@ copy-to-buffer} is similar except that any existing text in the other buffer is deleted, so the buffer is left containing just the text newly copied into it. - To retrieve the accumulated text from another buffer, use the command -@kbd{M-x insert-buffer}; this too takes @var{buffername} as an argument. -It inserts a copy of the text in buffer @var{buffername} into the -selected buffer. You can alternatively select the other buffer for -editing, then optionally move text from it by killing. @xref{Buffers}, -for background information on buffers. + To retrieve the accumulated text from another buffer, use the +command @kbd{M-x insert-buffer}; this too takes @var{buffername} as an +argument. It inserts a copy of the whole text in buffer +@var{buffername} into the selected buffer at point, and sets the mark +after the inserted text. Alternatively, you can select the other +buffer for editing, then copy text from it by killing. +@xref{Buffers}, for background information on buffers. Instead of accumulating text within Emacs, in a buffer, you can append text directly into a file with @kbd{M-x append-to-file}, which takes