diff man/killing.texi @ 74847:e282f9062d8d

(Deletion): Describe `M-\' prefix argument.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:07:36 +0000
parents c7e4f78b81a6
children 5941d31b7581
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--- a/man/killing.texi	Sat Dec 23 17:30:42 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/killing.texi	Sat Dec 23 18:07:36 2006 +0000
@@ -148,10 +148,11 @@
   The other delete commands are those which delete only whitespace
 characters: spaces, tabs and newlines.  @kbd{M-\}
 (@code{delete-horizontal-space}) deletes all the spaces and tab
-characters before and after point.  @kbd{M-@key{SPC}}
+characters before and after point.  (With a prefix argument, it
+deletes them before point, but not after.)  @kbd{M-@key{SPC}}
 (@code{just-one-space}) does likewise but leaves a single space after
-point, regardless of the number of spaces that existed previously (even
-if there were none before).  With a numeric argument @var{n}, it
+point, regardless of the number of spaces that existed previously
+(even if there were none before).  With a numeric argument @var{n}, it
 leaves @var{n} spaces after point.
 
   @kbd{C-x C-o} (@code{delete-blank-lines}) deletes all blank lines