X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/e57badee47218e1e9fd5111aec85f7efd3db92c3..60e992936ae72fa3f32c8549f74dde22fa0e4e37:/man/m-x.texi diff --git a/man/m-x.texi b/man/m-x.texi index 7e5d84df19..8881850d32 100644 --- a/man/m-x.texi +++ b/man/m-x.texi @@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ @node M-x, Help, Minibuffer, Top @chapter Running Commands by Name - The Emacs commands that are used often or that must be quick to type are -bound to keys---short sequences of characters---for convenient use. Other -Emacs commands that do not need to be brief are not bound to keys; to run -them, you must refer to them by name. (Command bound to keys can also -be invoked by their name.) @xref{Key Bindings}, for the description of + Every Emacs command has a name that you can use to run it. Commands +that are used often, or that must be quick to type, are also bound to +keys---short sequences of characters---for convenient use. You can +run them by name if you don't remember the keys. Other Emacs commands +that do not need to be quick are not bound to keys; the only way to +run them is by name. @xref{Key Bindings}, for the description of how to bind commands to keys. - A command name is, by convention, made up of one or more words, + By convention, a command name consists of one or more words, separated by hyphens; for example, @code{auto-fill-mode} or @code{manual-entry}. The use of English words makes the command name -easier to remember than a key made up of obscure characters, even though -it is more characters to type. +easier to remember than a key made up of obscure characters, even +though it is more characters to type. @kindex M-x The way to run a command by name is to start with @kbd{M-x}, type the @@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ minibuffer as a @dfn{prompt} to remind you to enter the name of a command to be run. @xref{Minibuffer}, for full information on the features of the minibuffer. - You can use completion to enter the command name. For example, the -command @code{forward-char} can be invoked by name by typing + You can use completion to enter the command name. For example, you +can invoke the command @code{forward-char} by name by typing either @example M-x forward-char @key{RET} @@ -72,3 +73,7 @@ together with following arguments. @kbd{M-x} works by running the command @code{execute-extended-command}, which is responsible for reading the name of another command and invoking it. + +@ignore + arch-tag: b67bff53-9628-4666-b94e-eda972a7ba56 +@end ignore