Mercurial > emacs
changeset 70516:767616c80562
(Disabling): Textual cleanups.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 08 May 2006 05:16:29 +0000 |
| parents | 9e3f440412e8 |
| children | 7ebead4f6646 |
| files | man/custom.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/custom.texi Sun May 07 20:57:58 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/custom.texi Mon May 08 05:16:29 2006 +0000 @@ -1977,11 +1977,12 @@ @subsection Disabling Commands @cindex disabled command - Disabling a command means causing it to require a confirmation -before it can be executed. The purpose of disabling a command is to -prevent users from executing it by accident and being confused. - - An attempt to invoke a disabled command interactively in Emacs + Disabling a command means that invoking it interactively asks for +confirmation from the user. The purpose of disabling a command is to +prevent users from executing it by accident; we do this for commands +that might be confusing to the uninitiated. + + Attempting to invoke a disabled command interactively in Emacs displays a window containing the command's name, its documentation, and some instructions on what to do immediately; then Emacs asks for input saying whether to execute the command as requested, enable it @@ -2021,8 +2022,8 @@ Whether a command is disabled is independent of what key is used to invoke it; disabling also applies if the command is invoked using -@kbd{M-x}. Disabling a command has no effect on calling it as a -function from Lisp programs. +@kbd{M-x}. However, disabling a command has no effect on calling it +as a function from Lisp programs. @node Syntax @section The Syntax Table