Mercurial > emacs
diff man/mark.texi @ 41743:d5bce152d420
(Marking Objects): `M-h' accepts prefix arg.
author | Kai Großjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net> |
---|---|
date | Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:06:43 +0000 |
parents | 3b40423b9355 |
children | 0302528bddbc |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/man/mark.texi Sat Dec 01 12:59:29 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/mark.texi Sat Dec 01 13:06:43 2001 +0000 @@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ 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