From 35626cba63178602ef049c34d32eecb310f53ff1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jay Belanger Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:33:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (General Mode Commands, Mode Settings in Embedded Mode): Added some explanation of recording mode settings. --- man/calc.texi | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/calc.texi b/man/calc.texi index c45fd8cd227..ca3d0d1dbd3 100644 --- a/man/calc.texi +++ b/man/calc.texi @@ -12262,9 +12262,13 @@ appended to the end of the file. @kindex m R @pindex calc-mode-record-mode The @kbd{m R} (@code{calc-mode-record-mode}) command tells Calc to -record the new mode settings (as if by pressing @kbd{m m}) every -time a mode setting changes. If Embedded mode is enabled, other -options are available; @pxref{Mode Settings in Embedded Mode}. +record all the mode settings (as if by pressing @kbd{m m}) every +time a mode setting changes. If the modes are saved this way, then this +``automatic mode recording'' mode is also saved. +Type @kbd{m R} again to disable this method of recording the mode +settings. To turn it off permanently, the @kbd{m m} command will also be +necessary. (If Embedded mode is enabled, other options for recording +the modes are available; @pxref{Mode Settings in Embedded Mode}.) @kindex m F @pindex calc-settings-file-name @@ -30451,8 +30455,8 @@ use @kbd{M-# u} to update the buffer by hand. @noindent The mode settings can be changed while Calc is in embedded mode, but will revert to their original values when embedded mode is ended -(except for the modes changed while the mode-setting mode was -@code{Save}). +(except for the modes saved when the mode-recording mode is +@code{Save}; see below). Embedded mode has a rather complicated mechanism for handling mode settings in Embedded formulas. It is possible to put annotations @@ -30572,10 +30576,11 @@ rules of reading annotations the @samp{(sci 0)} applies to it, too. We would have to go down to the other formula and press @kbd{M-# u} on it in order to get it to notice the new annotation. -Two more mode-recording modes selectable by @kbd{m R} are @code{Save} -(which works even outside of Embedded mode), in which mode settings -are recorded permanently in your Calc init file (the file given by the -variable @code{calc-settings-file}, typically @file{~/.calc.el}) +Two more mode-recording modes selectable by @kbd{m R} are available +which are also available outside of Embedded mode. +(@pxref{General Mode Commands}.) They are @code{Save}, in which mode +settings are recorded permanently in your Calc init file (the file given +by the variable @code{calc-settings-file}, typically @file{~/.calc.el}) rather than by annotating the current document, and no-recording mode (where there is no symbol like @code{Save} or @code{Local} in the mode line), in which mode-changing commands do not leave any -- 2.39.2