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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-01-31 18:23:17 +0200
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Another round of manual fixes from proofreading
* doc/emacs/search.texi (Incremental Search) (Nonincremental Search): Mention the menu bar and fix typos. Reported by David Bonnafous <dbonnafo@gmail.com> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/building.texi (Compilation): Improve wording. Suggested by drone <yoorobot@gmail.com> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/kmacro.texi (Basic Keyboard Macro): Clarify text. Suggested by Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/display.texi (Highlight Interactively, Fringes): Improve wording. Suggested by Justin Heyes-Jones <justinhj@gmail.com> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/commands.texi (User Input, Commands): Add missing commas. * doc/emacs/screen.texi (Menu Bar): Mention keyboard keys to navigate menus. Suggested by oldgaro <oldgaro@protonmail.com> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/search.texi (Not Exiting Isearch): Fix a typo. Reported by "Kocken, I.J. (Ilja)" <I.J.Kocken@uu.nl> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/basic.texi (Inserting Text): Mention one more label of RET. Suggested by Francis Wright <f.j.wright@live.co.uk> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/text.texi (Paragraphs): Clarify text. Reported by Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Introduction to VC) (Why Version Control?, VCS Merging): Fix typos and section capitalization. Suggested by "R. P. Dillon" <rpdillon@killring.org> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. * doc/emacs/modes.texi (Major Modes, Choosing Modes): Fix typos. Reported by clemens.radermacher@posteo.de in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
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@cindex newline
@c @findex electric-indent-just-newline
To end a line and start a new one, type @key{RET} (@code{newline}).
-(The @key{RET} key may be labeled @key{Return} or @key{Enter} on your
-keyboard, but we refer to it as @key{RET} in this manual.) This
-command inserts a newline character into the buffer, then indents
-(@pxref{Indentation}) according to the major mode. If point is at the end
-of the line, the effect is to create a new blank line after it and
-indent the new line; if point is in the middle of a line, the line is
-split at that position. To turn off the auto-indentation, you can
-either disable Electric Indent mode (@pxref{Indent Convenience}) or
-type @kbd{C-j}, which inserts just a newline, without any
-auto-indentation.
+(The @key{RET} key may be labeled @key{Return}, or @key{Enter}, or
+with a funny-looking left-pointing arrow on your keyboard, but we
+refer to it as @key{RET} in this manual.) This command inserts a
+newline character into the buffer, then indents (@pxref{Indentation})
+according to the major mode. If point is at the end of the line, the
+effect is to create a new blank line after it and indent the new line;
+if point is in the middle of a line, the line is split at that
+position. To turn off the auto-indentation, you can either disable
+Electric Indent mode (@pxref{Indent Convenience}) or type @kbd{C-j},
+which inserts just a newline, without any auto-indentation.
As we explain later in this manual, you can change the way Emacs
handles text insertion by turning on @dfn{minor modes}. For instance,