Merge from emacs-24, up to 2012-04-10T02:06:19Z!larsi@gnus.org

[bpt/emacs.git] / lisp / simple.el

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 64356ce..b8422f9 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -2150,7 +2150,7 @@ of `history-length', which see.")
   "Switch used to have the shell execute its command line argument.")
 
 (defvar shell-command-default-error-buffer nil
-  "*Buffer name for `shell-command' and `shell-command-on-region' error output.
+  "Buffer name for `shell-command' and `shell-command-on-region' error output.
 This buffer is used when `shell-command' or `shell-command-on-region'
 is run interactively.  A value of nil means that output to stderr and
 stdout will be intermixed in the output stream.")
@@ -2464,9 +2464,9 @@ COMMAND.
 To specify a coding system for converting non-ASCII characters
 in the input and output to the shell command, use \\[universal-coding-system-argument]
 before this command.  By default, the input (from the current buffer)
-is encoded in the same coding system that will be used to save the file,
-`buffer-file-coding-system'.  If the output is going to replace the region,
-then it is decoded from that same coding system.
+is encoded using coding-system specified by `process-coding-system-alist',
+falling back to `default-process-coding-system' if no match for COMMAND
+is found in `process-coding-system-alist'.
 
 The noninteractive arguments are START, END, COMMAND,
 OUTPUT-BUFFER, REPLACE, ERROR-BUFFER, and DISPLAY-ERROR-BUFFER.
@@ -3487,14 +3487,14 @@ and KILLP is t if a prefix arg was specified."
   "Kill up to and including ARGth occurrence of CHAR.
 Case is ignored if `case-fold-search' is non-nil in the current buffer.
 Goes backward if ARG is negative; error if CHAR not found."
-  (interactive "p\ncZap to char: ")
+  (interactive (list (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg)
+                    (read-char "Zap to char: " t)))
   ;; Avoid "obsolete" warnings for translation-table-for-input.
   (with-no-warnings
     (if (char-table-p translation-table-for-input)
        (setq char (or (aref translation-table-for-input char) char))))
   (kill-region (point) (progn
                         (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
-;                       (goto-char (if (> arg 0) (1- (point)) (1+ (point))))
                         (point))))
 
 ;; kill-line and its subroutines.
@@ -5321,7 +5321,7 @@ Returns t if it really did any work."
       t)))
 
 (defvar comment-line-break-function 'comment-indent-new-line
-  "*Mode-specific function which line breaks and continues a comment.
+  "Mode-specific function which line breaks and continues a comment.
 This function is called during auto-filling when a comment syntax
 is defined.
 The function should take a single optional argument, which is a flag