Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38415:80b960104fbd
Minor clarification about insert-buffer.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:49:53 +0000 |
| parents | 67b464da13ec |
| children | ac6b0bba8fcc |
| files | man/killing.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/killing.texi Sun Jul 15 19:53:53 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/killing.texi Sun Jul 15 20:49:53 2001 +0000 @@ -478,12 +478,13 @@ buffer is deleted, so the buffer is left containing just the text newly copied into it. - To retrieve the accumulated text from another buffer, use the command -@kbd{M-x insert-buffer}; this too takes @var{buffername} as an argument. -It inserts a copy of the text in buffer @var{buffername} into the -selected buffer. You can alternatively select the other buffer for -editing, then optionally move text from it by killing. @xref{Buffers}, -for background information on buffers. + To retrieve the accumulated text from another buffer, use the +command @kbd{M-x insert-buffer}; this too takes @var{buffername} as an +argument. It inserts a copy of the whole text in buffer +@var{buffername} into the selected buffer at point, and sets the mark +after the inserted text. Alternatively, you can select the other +buffer for editing, then copy text from it by killing. +@xref{Buffers}, for background information on buffers. Instead of accumulating text within Emacs, in a buffer, you can append text directly into a file with @kbd{M-x append-to-file}, which takes