* doc/emacs/mark.texi (Global Mark Ring): Fix global mark ring description.

Fixes: debbugs:10032

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 761be847da2..6e687bcefc9 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-11-21  Chong Yidong  <cyd@gnu.org>
+
+        * mark.texi (Global Mark Ring): Fix description of global mark
+        ring (Bug#10032).
+
 2011-11-20  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
         * msdog.texi (Windows Fonts): Fix typo.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/mark.texi b/doc/emacs/mark.texi
index 0eccef41711..7d65719e5f0 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/mark.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/mark.texi
@@ -354,9 +354,12 @@ Positions in Registers}).
 @vindex global-mark-ring-max
   In addition to the ordinary mark ring that belongs to each buffer,
 Emacs has a single @dfn{global mark ring}.  Each time you set a mark,
-in any buffer, this is recorded in the global mark ring in addition to
-the current buffer's own mark ring.  The length of this ring can be
-controlled by @code{global-mark-ring-max}, and is 16 by default.
+this is recorded in the global mark ring in addition to the current
+buffer's own mark ring, if you have switched buffers since the
+previous mark setting.  Hence, the global mark ring records a sequence
+of buffers that you have been in, and, for each buffer, a place where
+you set the mark.  The length of the global mark ring is controlled by
+@code{global-mark-ring-max}, and is 16 by default.
 
 @kindex C-x C-@key{SPC}
 @findex pop-global-mark
diff --git a/doc/emacs/windows.texi b/doc/emacs/windows.texi
index ad2040c9047..c44b67454a2 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/windows.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/windows.texi
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ has its own value of point.
 
 @cindex selected window
   At any time, one Emacs window is the @dfn{selected window}; the
-buffer this window is displaying is the current buffer.  Each window
-has its own value of point.  On graphical displays, the point is
-indicated by a solid blinking cursor in the selected window, and by a
-hollow box in non-selected windows.  On text-only terminals, the
-cursor is drawn only in the selected window.  @xref{Cursor Display}.
+buffer this window is displaying is the current buffer.  On graphical
+displays, the point is indicated by a solid blinking cursor in the
+selected window, and by a hollow box in non-selected windows.  On
+text-only terminals, the cursor is drawn only in the selected window.
+@xref{Cursor Display}.
 
   Commands to move point affect the value of point for the selected
 Emacs window only.  They do not change the value of point in other