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authorRobert Pluim2018-02-24 13:15:42 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii2018-02-24 13:15:42 +0200
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parent15863145cb8468b18b620d9dd82f90eaf4775d25 (diff)
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Describe 'view-lossage' changes in its docstring and NEWS
* lisp/help.el (view-lossage): Mention that this now uses the same format as `edit-last-kbd-macro'. (Bug#30560) * etc/NEWS: Improve the wording of the entry.
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS12
-rw-r--r--lisp/help.el2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index dacaf023bb1..596adf88ae5 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -167,11 +167,13 @@ directories in the destination.
167 167
168** Help 168** Help
169 169
170*** 'C-h l' (view-lossage) now displays last keystrokes and commands 170---
171in the same format as the edit buffer of edit-last-kbd-macro. 171*** Output format of 'C-h l' (view-lossage) has changed.
172This makes possible to copy the lines from the buffer generated 172For convenience, 'view-lossage' now displays the last keystrokes
173by 'view-lossage', yank them to the buffer "*Edit Macro*" created by 173and commands in the same format as the edit buffer of
174'edit-last-kbd-macro', and save the macro by 'C-c C-c'. 174'edit-last-kbd-macro'. This makes it possible to copy the lines from
175the buffer generated by 'view-lossage' to the "*Edit Macro*" buffer
176created by 'edit-last-kbd-macro', and to save the macro by 'C-c C-c'.
175 177
176** Ibuffer 178** Ibuffer
177 179
diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
index 9575f5b090c..dcf1f32069b 100644
--- a/lisp/help.el
+++ b/lisp/help.el
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ is specified by the variable `message-log-max'."
455 455
456(defun view-lossage () 456(defun view-lossage ()
457 "Display last few input keystrokes and the commands run. 457 "Display last few input keystrokes and the commands run.
458For convenience this uses the same format as
459`edit-last-kbd-macro'.
458 460
459To record all your input, use `open-dribble-file'." 461To record all your input, use `open-dribble-file'."
460 (interactive) 462 (interactive)