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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2024-03-20 14:45:24 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2024-03-20 14:45:24 +0200
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Fix documentation of M-SPC in user manual
* doc/emacs/killing.texi (Deletion): Fix documentation of 'cycle-spacing'. (Bug#69905)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/killing.texi b/doc/emacs/killing.texi
index 75ad631649c..c6633eb1892 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/killing.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/killing.texi
@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ Delete the next character (@code{delete-char}).
@item M-\
Delete spaces and tabs around point (@code{delete-horizontal-space}).
+@item M-x just-one-space
+Delete spaces and tabs around point, leaving one space.
@item M-@key{SPC}
-Delete spaces and tabs around point, leaving one space
-(@code{just-one-space}).
+Delete spaces and tabs around point in flexible ways
+(@code{cycle-spacing}).
@item C-x C-o
Delete blank lines around the current line (@code{delete-blank-lines}).
@item M-^
@@ -118,12 +120,13 @@ characters before and after point. With a prefix argument, this only
deletes spaces and tab characters before point.
@findex just-one-space
-@code{just-one-space} does likewise but leaves a single space before
-point, regardless of the number of spaces that existed previously
-(even if there were none before). With a numeric argument @var{n}, it
-leaves @var{n} spaces before point if @var{n} is positive; if @var{n}
-is negative, it deletes newlines in addition to spaces and tabs,
-leaving @minus{}@var{n} spaces before point.
+@kbd{M-x just-one-space} deletes tabs and spaces around point, but
+leaves a single space before point, regardless of the number of spaces
+that existed previously (even if there were none before). With a
+numeric argument @var{n}, it leaves @var{n} spaces before point if
+@var{n} is positive; if @var{n} is negative, it deletes newlines in
+addition to spaces and tabs, leaving @minus{}@var{n} spaces before
+point.
@kindex M-SPC
@findex cycle-spacing
@@ -131,7 +134,14 @@ leaving @minus{}@var{n} spaces before point.
The command @code{cycle-spacing} (@kbd{M-@key{SPC}}) acts like a more
flexible version of @code{just-one-space}. It performs different
space cleanup actions defined by @code{cycle-spacing-actions}, in a
-cyclic manner, if you call it repeatedly in succession.
+cyclic manner, if you call it repeatedly in succession. By default,
+the first invocation does the same as @code{just-one-space}, the
+second deletes all whitespace characters around point like
+@code{delete-horizontal-space}, and the third restores the original
+whitespace characters; then it cycles. If invoked with a prefix
+argument, each action is given that value of the argument. The user
+option @code{cycle-spacing-actions} can include other members; see the
+doc string of that option for the details.
@kbd{C-x C-o} (@code{delete-blank-lines}) deletes all blank lines
after the current line. If the current line is blank, it deletes all