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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-12-17 17:06:32 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-12-17 17:06:32 +0200
commit749c465a09354c6cf9a8421cbe398b803d9e732c (patch)
tree587ad47ca0c53c1c36f11f4bddbddf23d2cf9463
parentccb602836426f1fc2e43fa3506427744668f24c6 (diff)
downloademacs-749c465a09354c6cf9a8421cbe398b803d9e732c.tar.gz
; Improve recently installed documentation
* etc/NEWS: Fix a typo. * doc/lispref/commands.texi (Touchscreen Events): Fix wording and indexing.
-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/commands.texi21
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/commands.texi b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
index 136fa56987b..0a324a642fe 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/commands.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/commands.texi
@@ -1842,18 +1842,18 @@ as the mouse cursor remains pointing to the same glyph in the text.
@cindex support for touchscreens
Some window systems provide support for input devices that react to
-the user's finger, and translate those finger movements into points at
-an on-screen position. These input devices are known as touchscreens,
-and Emacs reports the movements they generate as @dfn{touchscreen
-events}.
+the user's touching the screen and moving fingers while touching the
+screen. These input devices are known as touchscreens, and Emacs
+reports the events they generate as @dfn{touchscreen events}.
Most individual events generated by a touchscreen only have meaning as
part of a larger sequence of other events: for instance, the simple
operation of tapping the touchscreen involves the user placing and
-releasing a finger on the touchscreen, and swiping the display to
+raising a finger on the touchscreen, and swiping the display to
scroll it involves placing a finger, moving it many times upwards or
-downwards, and then releasing the finger.
+downwards, and then raising the finger.
+@cindex touch point, in touchscreen events
While a simplistic model consisting of one finger is adequate for taps
and scrolling, more complicated gestures require support for keeping
track of multiple fingers, where the position of each finger is
@@ -1864,7 +1864,6 @@ positions of their individual points determine the amount by which to
zoom the display, and the center of an imaginary line between those
positions determines where to pan the display after zooming.
-@cindex touch point representation
The low-level touchscreen events described below can be used to
implement all the touch sequences described above. In those events,
each point is represented by a cons of an arbitrary number identifying
@@ -1879,15 +1878,15 @@ finger against the touchscreen.
@cindex @code{touchscreen-update} event
@item (touchscreen-update @var{points})
-This event is sent when an point on the touchscreen has changed
-position. @var{points} is a list of touchpoints containing the
-up-to-date positions of each touchpoint currently on the touchscreen.
+This event is sent when a point on the touchscreen has changed
+position. @var{points} is a list of touch points containing the
+up-to-date positions of each touch point currently on the touchscreen.
@cindex @code{touchscreen-end} event
@item (touchscreen-end @var{point})
This event is sent when @var{point} is no longer present on the
display, because another program took the grab, or because the user
-released the finger.
+raised the finger from the touchscreen.
@end table
@node Focus Events
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 61e1cd12af9..bd1ed4da00c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ assumes a time of 00:00 instead of signaling an error.
+++
** New events for taking advantage of touchscreen devices.
-The events 'touchscreen-down', 'touchscreen-update' and
+The events 'touchscreen-begin, 'touchscreen-update', and
'touchscreen-end' have been added to take better advantage of
touch-capable display panels.