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diff --git a/man/major.texi b/man/major.texi index 3de14ec90a..d9f5039117 100644 --- a/man/major.texi +++ b/man/major.texi @@ -31,16 +31,17 @@ how comments are to be delimited. Many major modes redefine the syntactical properties of characters appearing in the buffer. @xref{Syntax}. - The major modes fall into three major groups. Lisp mode (which has -several variants), C mode, Fortran mode and others are for specific -programming languages. Text mode, Nroff mode, SGML mode, @TeX{} mode -and Outline mode are for normal text, plain or marked up. The remaining -major modes are not intended for use on users' files; they are used in -buffers created for specific purposes by Emacs, such as Dired mode for -buffers made by Dired (@pxref{Dired}), Mail mode for buffers made by -@kbd{C-x m} (@pxref{Sending Mail}), and Shell mode for buffers used for -communicating with an inferior shell process (@pxref{Interactive -Shell}). + The major modes fall into three major groups. The first group +contains Lisp mode (which has several variants), C mode, Fortran mode +and others. These modes are for specific programming languages. The +second group contains Text mode, Nroff mode, SGML mode, @TeX{} mode +and Outline mode. These modes are for normal text, plain or marked +up. The remaining major modes are not intended for use on users' +files; they are used in buffers created for specific purposes by +Emacs, such as Dired mode for buffers made by Dired (@pxref{Dired}), +Mail mode for buffers made by @kbd{C-x m} (@pxref{Sending Mail}), and +Shell mode for buffers used for communicating with an inferior shell +process (@pxref{Interactive Shell}). Most programming-language major modes specify that only blank lines separate paragraphs. This is to make the paragraph commands useful. @@ -88,8 +89,8 @@ or this form, For example, one element normally found in the list has the form @code{(@t{"\\.c\\'"} . c-mode)}, and it is responsible for selecting C mode for files whose names end in @file{.c}. (Note that @samp{\\} is -needed in Lisp syntax to include a @samp{\} in the string, which is -needed to suppress the special meaning of @samp{.} in regexps.) If the +needed in Lisp syntax to include a @samp{\} in the string, which must +be used to suppress the special meaning of @samp{.} in regexps.) If the element has the form @code{(@var{regexp} @var{mode-function} @var{flag})} and @var{flag} is non-@code{nil}, then after calling @var{mode-function}, the suffix that matched @var{regexp} is discarded @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ mode name should appear in this line both preceded and followed by @noindent tells Emacs to use Lisp mode. Such an explicit specification overrides -any defaulting based on the file name. Note how the semicolon is used +any defaults based on the file name. Note how the semicolon is used to make Lisp treat this line as a comment. Another format of mode specification is @@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ mode is taken from the previously current buffer. mode Emacs would choose automatically: use the command @kbd{M-x normal-mode} to do this. This is the same function that @code{find-file} calls to choose the major mode. It also processes -the file's local variables list if any. +the file's local variables list (if any). @vindex change-major-mode-with-file-name The commands @kbd{C-x C-w} and @code{set-visited-file-name} change to |