changeset 68689:05a209d3a8c2

Minor cleanups. "Graphical display", not window system.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:52:35 +0000
parents 1cfffe48ae02
children 1c1a7dd79bb3
files man/custom.texi man/frames.texi
diffstat 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/custom.texi	Tue Feb 07 23:51:34 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/custom.texi	Tue Feb 07 23:52:35 2006 +0000
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 
   Font-Lock mode automatically highlights certain textual units found in
 programs, such as comments, strings, and function names being defined.
-This requires a window system that can display multiple fonts.
+This requires a graphical display that can show multiple fonts.
 @xref{Faces}.
 
   ISO Accents mode makes the characters @samp{`}, @samp{'}, @samp{"},
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
 @file{~/.emacs} file (@pxref{Init File}).
 
   The appearance of the example buffers in this section is typically
-different under a window system, since faces are then used to indicate
+different under a graphical display, since faces are then used to indicate
 buttons, links and editable fields.
 
 @menu
@@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@
 
   When Emacs is started, it normally loads a Lisp program from the
 file @file{.emacs} or @file{.emacs.el} in your home directory
-(see @ref{General Variables, HOME} if you don't know where that is).
+(see @ref{General Variables, HOME}, if you don't know where that is).
 We call this file your @dfn{init file} because it specifies how to
 initialize Emacs for you.  You can use the command line switch
 @samp{-q} to prevent loading your init file, and @samp{-u} (or
@@ -2456,7 +2456,7 @@
 editor customizations even if you are running as the super user.
 
   More precisely, Emacs first determines which user's init file to use.
-It gets the user name from the environment variables @env{LOGNAME} and
+It gets your user name from the environment variables @env{LOGNAME} and
 @env{USER}; if neither of those exists, it uses effective user-ID.
 If that user name matches the real user-ID, then Emacs uses @env{HOME};
 otherwise, it looks up the home directory corresponding to that user
--- a/man/frames.texi	Tue Feb 07 23:51:34 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/frames.texi	Tue Feb 07 23:52:35 2006 +0000
@@ -510,8 +510,10 @@
 @kindex C-z @r{(X windows)}
 @findex iconify-or-deiconify-frame
 Iconify the selected Emacs frame (@code{iconify-or-deiconify-frame}).
-The normal meaning of @kbd{C-z}, to suspend Emacs, is not useful under a
-window system, so it has a different binding in that case.
+The normal meaning of @kbd{C-z}, to suspend Emacs, is not useful under
+a graphical display that allows multiple applications to operate
+simultaneously in their own windies, so Emacs gives @kbd{C-z} a
+different binding in that case.
 
 If you type this command on an Emacs frame's icon, it deiconifies the frame.
 
@@ -967,8 +969,8 @@
 @cindex mouse avoidance
 
 @vindex mouse-avoidance-mode
-Mouse Avoidance mode keeps the window system mouse pointer away from
-point, to avoid obscuring text.  Whenever it moves the mouse, it also
+Mouse Avoidance mode keeps the mouse pointer away from point, to avoid
+obscuring text you want to edit.  Whenever it moves the mouse, it also
 raises the frame.  To use Mouse Avoidance mode, customize the variable
 @code{mouse-avoidance-mode}.  You can set this to various values to
 move the mouse in several ways: