From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:19:09 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Minor improvements of buffer documentation X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~272 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b199614cc;p=emacs.git Minor improvements of buffer documentation * doc/emacs/buffers.texi (Buffers): Say that buffers are killed when no longer needed. Suggested by Jean-Christophe Helary . --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi index 7b4e070d1b9..fc2ee6f638d 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/buffers.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/buffers.texi @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ the directory listing. If you send a message with @kbd{C-x m}, a buffer is used to hold the text of the message. When you ask for a command's documentation, that appears in a buffer named @file{*Help*}. + Buffers exist as long as they are in use, and are deleted +(``killed'') when no longer needed, either by you (@pxref{Kill +Buffer}) or by Emacs (e.g., when you exit Emacs, @pxref{Exiting}). + Each buffer has a unique name, which can be of any length. When a buffer is displayed in a window, its name is shown in the mode line (@pxref{Mode Line}). The distinction between upper and lower case