From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:37:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fix wording of the last change. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~17967 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=564b1f760daa16a4b847d6d2167e19af9b1ee306;p=emacs.git Fix wording of the last change. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 68e74b7b09c..87bc82e5fc6 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ will now be extended each time, so you can mark the next two sexps with M-C-SPC M-C-SPC, for example. +++ -** M-h (mark-pagaraph) now accepts a prefix arg. If positive, mark -current and following pargraphs; if negative, mark current and -preceding paragraphs. +** M-h (mark-pagaraph) now accepts a prefix arg. +With positive arg, M-h marks the current and the following pargraphs; +if the arg is negative, it marks the current and the preceding +paragraphs. ** mouse-wheels can now scroll a specific fraction of the window (rather than a fixed number of lines) and the scrolling is `progressive'. diff --git a/man/mark.texi b/man/mark.texi index b34b65212d2..ad57c95958c 100644 --- a/man/mark.texi +++ b/man/mark.texi @@ -284,16 +284,16 @@ arguments just like @kbd{M-f} and @kbd{C-M-f}. @findex mark-whole-buffer Other commands set both point and mark, to delimit an object in the buffer. For example, @kbd{M-h} (@code{mark-paragraph}) moves point to -the beginning of the paragraph that surrounds or follows point, and puts -the mark at the end of that paragraph (@pxref{Paragraphs}). It prepares -the region so you can indent, case-convert, or kill a whole paragraph. -The command also accepts a prefix argument. If the prefix argument -is positive, @kbd{M-h} marks that many paragraphs, the paragraph -surrounding point plus some following paragraphs. If the prefix -argument is negative, @kbd{M-h} also marks that many paragraphs, but -the preceding instead of the following paragraphs. (With a positive -argument, point is put at the beginning and mark at end, with a -negative argument, point is at end and mark at the beginning.) +the beginning of the paragraph that surrounds or follows point, and +puts the mark at the end of that paragraph (@pxref{Paragraphs}). It +prepares the region so you can indent, case-convert, or kill a whole +paragraph. With prefix argument, if the argument's value is positive, +@kbd{M-h} marks that many paragraphs, the paragraph surrounding point +plus some following paragraphs. If the prefix argument is negative, +@kbd{M-h} also marks that many paragraphs, but the preceding ones +instead of the following. (With a positive argument, point is put +at the beginning and mark at end, with a negative argument, point is +at end and mark at the beginning.) @kbd{C-M-h} (@code{mark-defun}) similarly puts point before, and the mark after, the current (or following) major top-level definition, or