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bug#11689: [PATCH 07/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Generalize the descript
From: |
Michael Witten |
Subject: |
bug#11689: [PATCH 07/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Generalize the description of when to use `C-x C-c' |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:08:19 -0000 |
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:47:39 +0000
Listing the specific case of "mail handling programs" so prominently was
confusing to me at first blush. Also, the original text mixes plurality;
an Emacs can only be invoked by ONE such program at a time, a pedantic
subtlety that is reflected in the new language.
---
etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL b/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
index e0eaa35..0b3cd77 100644
--- a/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
+++ b/etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL
@@ -647,8 +647,8 @@ but does not destroy the Emacs job. In the most common
shells, you
can resume Emacs with the `fg' command or with `%emacs'.
The time to use C-x C-c is when you are about to log out. It's also
-the right thing to use to exit an Emacs invoked under mail handling
-programs and other miscellaneous utilities.
+the right thing to use to exit an Emacs invoked for temporary input
+by some utility (such as a mail handling program).
There are many C-x commands. Here is a list of the ones you have learned:
--
1.7.10.2.484.gcd07cc5
- bug#11689: [PATCH 01/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Remove text saying `C-x 1' is first 2-char command, (continued)
- bug#11689: [PATCH 01/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Remove text saying `C-x 1' is first 2-char command, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 03/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Remove redundant comparison of killing and deleting, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 02/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Describe the act of scrolling text more consistently, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 04/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Eradicate the future tense, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 05/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Minor rewording to streamline and generalize `C-x s' intro, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 06/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Use `application' consistently by replacing an occurence of `program', Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 08/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Remove the word `globally', Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 09/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Replace occurences of `--' with more appropriate text, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 10/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: c-h-a-n-g-e-d -> "changed", Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 14/14] etc/ChangeLog: Note my patch series for etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 07/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Generalize the description of when to use `C-x C-c',
Michael Witten <=
- bug#11689: [PATCH 13/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Place `C-x C-f' beside `find-file' for clarity, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 12/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Make consistent the white space around `>>' instructions, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12
- bug#11689: [PATCH 11/14] etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL: Complete instructions by telling the user to move the cursor, Michael Witten, 2012/06/12