Mercurial > emacs
changeset 77074:ae905157685c
(set-mark-command): Doc fix.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:50:46 +0000 |
| parents | 1248605d9e44 |
| children | 68bbe818cb3f |
| files | lisp/simple.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/simple.el Mon Apr 09 06:52:30 2007 +0000 +++ b/lisp/simple.el Mon Apr 09 07:50:46 2007 +0000 @@ -3203,28 +3203,28 @@ :group 'editing) (defun set-mark-command (arg) - "Set mark at where point is, or jump to mark. -With no prefix argument, set mark, and push old mark position on local -mark ring; also push mark on global mark ring if last mark was set in + "Set mark where point is, or jump to mark. +Setting the mark also sets the \"region\", which is the closest +equivalent in Emacs to what some editors call the \"selection\". + +With no prefix argument, set mark and push old mark position on local +mark ring. Also, push mark on global mark ring, if last mark was set in another buffer. Immediately repeating the command activates `transient-mark-mode' temporarily. -With argument, e.g. \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], \ -jump to mark, and pop a new position -for mark off the local mark ring \(this does not affect the global -mark ring\). Use \\[pop-global-mark] to jump to a mark off the global +With prefix argument \(e.g., \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command]\), \ +jump to mark, and set mark from +position popped off the local mark ring \(this does not affect the global +mark ring\). Use \\[pop-global-mark] to jump to a mark popped off the global mark ring \(see `pop-global-mark'\). If `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' is non-nil, repeating -the \\[set-mark-command] command with no prefix pops the next position +the \\[set-mark-command] command with no prefix argument pops the next position off the local (or global) mark ring and jumps there. -With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument, e.g. \\[universal-argument] \ -\\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], unconditionally -set mark where point is. - -Setting the mark also sets the \"region\", which is the closest -equivalent in Emacs to what some editors call the \"selection\". +With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument \(e.g., \\[universal-argument] \ +\\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command]\), unconditionally +set mark where point is, even if `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' is non-nil. Novice Emacs Lisp programmers often try to use the mark for the wrong purposes. See the documentation of `set-mark' for more information."