Skeletons}). The point (@pxref{(emacs)Point}) is left at the next
interesting spot in the skeleton instead.
- A negative prefix means to do something similar with that many precedingly
+ A negative prefix means to do something similar with that many previously
marked interregions (@pxref{(emacs)Mark}). In the simplest case, if you type
@kbd{M--} just before issuing the skeleton command, that will wrap the
skeleton around the current region, just like a positive argument would have