diff man/cmdargs.texi @ 38745:5464ee1ba8e2

Minor cleanups.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 08 Aug 2001 23:39:08 +0000
parents 400dcf8d0bad
children e5480b57a95f
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--- a/man/cmdargs.texi	Wed Aug 08 23:38:27 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/cmdargs.texi	Wed Aug 08 23:39:08 2001 +0000
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
   Most options specify how to initialize Emacs, or set parameters for
 the Emacs session.  We call them @dfn{initial options}.  A few options
 specify things to do: for example, load libraries, call functions, or
-exit Emacs.  These are called @dfn{action options}.  These and file
+terminate Emacs.  These are called @dfn{action options}.  These and file
 names together are called @dfn{action arguments}.  Emacs processes all
 the action arguments in the order they are written.
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 @item +@var{linenum}:@var{columnnum} @var{file}
 @opindex +@var{linenum}:@var{columnnum}
 Visit @var{file} using @code{find-file}, then go to line number
-@var{linenum} in it, and move to column number @var{columnnum}.
+@var{linenum} and put point at column number @var{columnnum}.
 
 @need 3000
 @item -l @var{file}
@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@
 or @samp{-f} option will be used as well, to invoke a Lisp program
 to do the batch processing.
 
-@samp{-batch} implies @samp{-q} (do not load an init file).  It also causes
-Emacs to kill itself after all command options have been processed.  In
-addition, auto-saving is not done except in buffers for which it has been
-explicitly requested.
+@samp{-batch} implies @samp{-q} (do not load an init file).  It also
+causes Emacs to exit after processing all the command options.  In
+addition, it disables auto-saving except in buffers for which it has
+been explicitly requested.
 
 @item -q
 @opindex -q
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
 inside Emacs.
 @cindex background mode, on @code{xterm}
 @item TERM
-The type of the terminal that Emacs is using.  The variable must be
+The type of the terminal that Emacs is using.  This variable must be
 set unless Emacs is run in batch mode.  On MS-DOS, it defaults to
 @samp{internal}, which specifies a built-in terminal emulation that
 handles the machine's own display.  If the value of @env{TERM} indicates