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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/autotype.texi | 14 |
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diff --git a/doc/misc/autotype.texi b/doc/misc/autotype.texi index a880642ac37..b005c9c34f7 100644 --- a/doc/misc/autotype.texi +++ b/doc/misc/autotype.texi @@ -274,13 +274,13 @@ empty file is visited. This is accomplished by putting @vindex auto-insert-alist What gets inserted, if anything, is determined by the variable -@code{auto-insert-alist}. The @sc{car}s of this list are each either -a mode name, making an element applicable when a buffer is in that -mode, or they can be a string, which is a regexp matched against the -buffer's file name. In that way different kinds of files that have -the same mode in Emacs can be distinguished. The @sc{car}s may also -be cons cells consisting of mode name or regexp as above and an -additional descriptive string. +@code{auto-insert-alist}. The @sc{car} of each element of this list +is either a mode name, making the element applicable when a buffer is +in that mode, or a string, which is a regexp matched against a +buffer's file name (the latter allows to distinguish between different +kinds of files that have the same mode in Emacs). The @sc{car} of an +element may also be a cons cell, consisting of mode name or regexp, as +above, and an additional descriptive string. When a matching element is found, the @sc{cdr} says what to do. It may be a string, which is a file name, whose contents are to be inserted, if |