From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 05:16:29 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Disabling): Textual cleanups. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~2686 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a995a779fc06af53a4eb340b2c5c4f826c17723d;p=emacs.git (Disabling): Textual cleanups. --- diff --git a/man/custom.texi b/man/custom.texi index 12933e4e0f2..78a51716031 100644 --- a/man/custom.texi +++ b/man/custom.texi @@ -1977,11 +1977,12 @@ usual to do so. @subsection Disabling Commands @cindex disabled command - Disabling a command means causing it to require a confirmation -before it can be executed. The purpose of disabling a command is to -prevent users from executing it by accident and being confused. + Disabling a command means that invoking it interactively asks for +confirmation from the user. The purpose of disabling a command is to +prevent users from executing it by accident; we do this for commands +that might be confusing to the uninitiated. - An attempt to invoke a disabled command interactively in Emacs + Attempting to invoke a disabled command interactively in Emacs displays a window containing the command's name, its documentation, and some instructions on what to do immediately; then Emacs asks for input saying whether to execute the command as requested, enable it @@ -2021,8 +2022,8 @@ because Emacs has not read your init file. Whether a command is disabled is independent of what key is used to invoke it; disabling also applies if the command is invoked using -@kbd{M-x}. Disabling a command has no effect on calling it as a -function from Lisp programs. +@kbd{M-x}. However, disabling a command has no effect on calling it +as a function from Lisp programs. @node Syntax @section The Syntax Table