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diff man/basic.texi @ 38870:d44abb4e68b2
Don't use "print" for displaying a message.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:20:06 +0000 |
| parents | 5889c45fd6ad |
| children | a093cd4ed690 |
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--- a/man/basic.texi Mon Aug 20 04:18:06 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/basic.texi Mon Aug 20 04:20:06 2001 +0000 @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ Consecutive repetitions of @kbd{C-_} or @kbd{C-x u} undo earlier and earlier changes, back to the limit of the undo information available. If all recorded changes have already been undone, the undo command -prints an error message and does nothing. +displays an error message and does nothing. Any command other than an undo command breaks the sequence of undo commands. Starting from that moment, the previous undo commands become @@ -592,12 +592,13 @@ region and the line number relative to the whole buffer. @kbd{M-x what-page} counts pages from the beginning of the file, and -counts lines within the page, printing both numbers. @xref{Pages}. +counts lines within the page, showing both numbers in the echo area. +@xref{Pages}. @kindex M-= @findex count-lines-region While on this subject, we might as well mention @kbd{M-=} (@code{count-lines-region}), -which prints the number of lines in the region (@pxref{Mark}). +which displays the number of lines in the region (@pxref{Mark}). @xref{Pages}, for the command @kbd{C-x l} which counts the lines in the current page. @@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ @findex what-cursor-position The command @kbd{C-x =} (@code{what-cursor-position}) can be used to find out the column that the cursor is in, and other miscellaneous information about -point. It prints a line in the echo area that looks like this: +point. It displays a line in the echo area that looks like this: @smallexample Char: c (0143, 99, 0x63) point=21044 of 26883(78%) column 53 @@ -633,7 +634,7 @@ columns from the left edge of the window. If the buffer has been narrowed, making some of the text at the -beginning and the end temporarily inaccessible, @kbd{C-x =} prints +beginning and the end temporarily inaccessible, @kbd{C-x =} displays additional text describing the currently accessible range. For example, it might display this:
