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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-02-19 15:16:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-02-19 15:16:31 +0200 |
| commit | 8e8b46ef818a5f94a9697dce1c49c6869d61deed (patch) | |
| tree | c57ee28f8b1610c72732c10212f88d3535c87434 | |
| parent | dcb2015a5b644dafd61580c791f1f6625f5858e4 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-8e8b46ef818a5f94a9697dce1c49c6869d61deed.tar.gz | |
More accurate documentation of the "r" interactive spec
* doc/lispref/commands.texi (Interactive Codes): Describe the
effect of 'mark-even-if-inactive'.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/commands.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/commands.texi b/doc/lispref/commands.texi index 5385c03790d..7569ca6e691 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/commands.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/commands.texi @@ -488,7 +488,10 @@ I/O. Point and the mark, as two numeric arguments, smallest first. This is the only code letter that specifies two successive arguments rather than one. This will signal an error if the mark is not set in the buffer -which is current when the command is invoked. No I/O. +which is current when the command is invoked. If Transient Mark mode +is turned on (@pxref{The Mark}) --- as it is by default --- and user +option @code{mark-even-if-inactive} is @code{nil}, Emacs will signal +an error even if the mark @emph{is} set, but is inactive. No I/O. @item s Arbitrary text, read in the minibuffer and returned as a string |