# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 997197760 0
# Node ID 7d62f0684e9966552791f333fbe831ff36f4c884
# Parent  f0446bd63cd217ea5ffb9b893b4a47dfb9a29b70
(Arguments): Say explicitly that M-- is -1.  Fix spacing in an @example.

diff -r f0446bd63cd2 -r 7d62f0684e99 man/basic.texi
--- a/man/basic.texi	Tue Aug 07 14:53:15 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/basic.texi	Tue Aug 07 15:22:40 2001 +0000
@@ -691,16 +691,19 @@
   If your terminal keyboard has a @key{META} key, the easiest way to
 specify a numeric argument is to type digits and/or a minus sign while
 holding down the @key{META} key.  For example,
+
 @example
 M-5 C-n
 @end example
+
 @noindent
 would move down five lines.  The characters @kbd{Meta-1}, @kbd{Meta-2},
 and so on, as well as @kbd{Meta--}, do this because they are keys bound
 to commands (@code{digit-argument} and @code{negative-argument}) that
-are defined to contribute to an argument for the next command.  Digits
-and @kbd{-} modified with Control, or Control and Meta, also specify
-numeric arguments.
+are defined to contribute to an argument for the next command.
+@kbd{Meta--} without digits normally means @minus{}1.  Digits and
+@kbd{-} modified with Control, or Control and Meta, also specify numeric
+arguments.
 
 @kindex C-u
 @findex universal-argument