From: Kai Großjohann Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:06:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Marking Objects): `M-h' accepts prefix arg. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~17972 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59ac134c761f116e753abf343230f72532db9c87;p=emacs.git (Marking Objects): `M-h' accepts prefix arg. --- diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 6ac9b95273a..fa97d4e2bb5 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-12-01 Kai Gro,A_(Bjohann + + * mark.texi (Marking Objects): `M-h' accepts prefix arg. + 2001-11-25 Jason Rumney * frames.texi (Tooltips): Remove MS-Windows exceptions. diff --git a/man/mark.texi b/man/mark.texi index 0e1f6021608..b34b65212d2 100644 --- a/man/mark.texi +++ b/man/mark.texi @@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ 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.) @kbd{C-M-h} (@code{mark-defun}) similarly puts point before, and the mark after, the current (or following) major top-level definition, or