From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: save-buffers documentation Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:18:28 -0700 Message-ID: <39mdd7F638otdU1@individual.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110836499 747 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2005 21:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 14 22:41:39 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAx75-0008IU-UG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:28:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAxMq-00063E-GG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAxHW-0004C4-H7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAxHP-0004A3-8I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAxHM-00045z-Ra for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.60] (helo=mailbox8.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DAwyu-0000w1-Ty for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mailbox8.ucsd.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2ELIWM1069985 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:19:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.67]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.50) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1DAwxL-0002Pe-Vz>; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:18:32 +0100 Original-Received: from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) by relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.50) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1DAwxL-0007hA-VA>; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:18:31 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:18:31 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 22 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net pAb63cBKFr4rEHPQpd0YNAlIlgE290o3W1mMdNwYs5xlCv1oM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Relay+Sender accepted); processed by UCSD_GL-v1.1 on mailbox8.ucsd.edu; Mon, 14 March 2005 21:19:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Spamscanner: mailbox8.ucsd.edu (v1.5 Dec 3 2004 17:34:44, 2.7/5.0 3.0.0) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 70463 j2ELIWM1069985 mailbox8.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10921 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10921 Aaron Hawley wrote: > When visiting the `save-buffer' help screen, I found the first section > of the function's documentation string to be confusing. Below is a > patch against CVS that offers some rough suggestions. The existing > documentation in its current state (in my version of Emacs) is below > the patch. > -With 1 \\[universal-argument], marks this version > +Combined with one \\[universal-argument], marks this version > to become a backup when the next save is done. > -With 2 \\[universal-argument]'s, > +Combined with two \\[universal-argument]'s, > unconditionally makes the previous version into a backup file. > -With 3 \\[universal-argument]'s, marks this version > +Combined with three \\[universal-argument]'s, marks this version I think "Prefixed by" or "Prefixed with" would be more accurate than "Combined with", and are consistent with the "prefix arg" terminology used in Emacs. Thanks, -- Kevin Rodgers