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diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index f5bbc4d65c0..7d49e28d11f 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -2283,16 +2283,25 @@ buffer, but doesn't select any of them. @kindex M-, @findex xref-go-back - To go back to places @emph{from where} you've displayed the definition, -use @kbd{M-,} (@code{xref-go-back}). It jumps back to the + To go back to places @emph{from where} you've displayed the +definition, use @kbd{M-,} (@code{xref-go-back}). It jumps back to the point of the last invocation of @kbd{M-.}. Thus you can find and examine the definition of something with @kbd{M-.} and then return to -where you were with @kbd{M-,}. +where you were with @kbd{M-,}. @kbd{M-,} allows you to retrace the +steps you made forward in the history of places, all the way to the +first place in history, where you first invoked @kbd{M-.}, or to any +place in-between. @kindex C-M-, @findex xref-go-forward - If you previously went back too far with @kbd{M-,}, @kbd{C-M-,} -(@code{xref-go-forward}) can be used to go forward again. + If you previously went back too far with @kbd{M-,}, or want to +re-examine a place from which you went back, you can use @kbd{C-M-,} +(@code{xref-go-forward}) to go forward again. This is similar to +using @kbd{M-.}, except that you don't need on each step to move point +to the identifier whose definition you want to look up. @kbd{C-M-,} +allows you to retrace all the steps you made back in the history of +places, all the way to the last place in history, where you invoked +@kbd{M-,}, or to any place in-between. @findex xref-etags-mode Some major modes install @code{xref} support facilities that might |