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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-06-22 19:59:30 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2014-06-22 19:59:30 +0300
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parent6692a64cc4c6929175c1d55a826ca35d1db3e652 (diff)
downloademacs-f3953a24ea8b800170bde3db98565f2040b2f915.tar.gz
More tweaks of skeleton documentation wrt \n behavior at bol/eol.
lisp/skeleton.el (skeleton-insert): Yet another fix of the doc string wrt behavior of \n as the first/last element of a skeleton. doc/misc/autotype.texi (Skeleton Language): Document the \n feature better.
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diff --git a/lisp/skeleton.el b/lisp/skeleton.el
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@@ -200,8 +200,9 @@ not needed, a prompt-string or an expression for complex read functions.
If ELEMENT is a string or a character it gets inserted (see also
`skeleton-transformation-function'). Other possibilities are:
- \\n if not the last element of the skeleton, or not at eol,
- go to next line and indent according to mode
+ \\n go to next line and indent according to mode, unless
+ this is the first/last element of a skeleton and point
+ is at bol/eol
_ interesting point, interregion here
- interesting point, no interregion interaction, overrides
interesting point set by _
@@ -218,7 +219,8 @@ or at the first occurrence of _ or at the end of the inserted text.
Note that \\n as the last element of the skeleton only inserts a
newline if not at eol. If you want to unconditionally insert a newline
-at the end of the skeleton, use \"\\n\" instead.
+at the end of the skeleton, use \"\\n\" instead. Likewise with \\n
+as the first element when at bol.
Further elements can be defined via `skeleton-further-elements'.
ELEMENT may itself be a SKELETON with an INTERACTOR. The user is prompted