Re: Patch to the docstring of `set-mark-command'

[Kevin Rodgers]

Emilio Lopes wrote:
> The variable `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' was recently introduced, but 
> the docstring of `set-mark-command' was not updated.  This patch fixes 
> this.  The Info documentation was already updated.   2006-01-07  Emilio 
> C. Lopes  <address@hidden>
>
>     * simple.el (set-mark-command): mention variable 
>     `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' in the docstring.
>
>
> diff -rN -c old-emacs-darcs.eclig/lisp/simple.el 
> new-emacs-darcs.eclig/lisp/simple.el
> *** old-emacs-darcs.eclig/lisp/simple.el    Thu Jan  5 18:33:51 2006
> --- new-emacs-darcs.eclig/lisp/simple.el    Sat Jan  7 18:30:26 2006
> ***************
> *** 3186,3192 ****
>  mark ring \(see `pop-global-mark'\).
>  
>  Repeating the \\[set-mark-command] command without the prefix jumps to
> ! the next position off the local (or global) mark ring.
>  
>  With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument, e.g. 
> \\[universal-argument] \
>  \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], unconditionally
> --- 3186,3193 ----
>  mark ring \(see `pop-global-mark'\).
>  
>  Repeating the \\[set-mark-command] command without the prefix jumps to
> ! the next position off the local (or global) mark ring if
> ! `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' is non-nil.
>  
>  With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument, e.g. 
> \\[universal-argument] \
>  \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], unconditionally

"jumps to the next position off the local (or global) mark ring" sounds 
odd to me.  I suspect the use of "off" is a remnant of the verb "pops",
which is now "jumps".  Should it be "jumps to the next position in the
loca (or global) mark ring"?

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Kevin Rodgers