From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:01:42 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Entering Emacs): Clean up text about restarting Emacs for each file. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.93~281 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e60e4a7578737385adda59e6584e96c323670605;p=emacs.git (Entering Emacs): Clean up text about restarting Emacs for each file. --- diff --git a/man/entering.texi b/man/entering.texi index dca85d44812..3be5e6a19dd 100644 --- a/man/entering.texi +++ b/man/entering.texi @@ -39,12 +39,15 @@ file, you exit the editor. The next time you want to edit a file, you must start the editor again. Working this way, it is convenient to use a command-line argument to say which file to edit. - It's not smart to start Emacs afresh for every file you edit. Emacs -can visit more than one file in a single editing session, and upon -exit Emacs loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill ring, -registers, undo history, and mark ring. These features are useful for -operating on multiple files, or even one. If you kill Emacs after -each file, you don't take advantage of them. + However, killing Emacs after editing one each and starting it afresh +for the next file is both unnecessary and harmful, since it denies you +the full power of Emacs. Emacs can visit more than one file in a +single editing session, and that is the right way to use it. Exiting +the Emacs session loses valuable accumulated context, such as the kill +ring, registers, undo history, and mark ring. These features are +useful for operating on multiple files, or even continuing to edit one +file. If you kill Emacs after each file, you don't take advantage of +them. The recommended way to use GNU Emacs is to start it only once, just after you log in, and do all your editing in the same Emacs session.