* regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables.

Fixes: debbugs:13565

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 8d976127ec9..97acd1c212f 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-02-08  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+        * regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables
+        (bug#13565).
+
         * search.texi (Search Case): Rearrange text slightly to make it
         obvious that `M-c' also toggles sensitivity if `case-fold-search'
         is nil (bug#14726).
diff --git a/doc/emacs/regs.texi b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
index 8968cbbcffa..5bc22e94ed3 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/regs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
@@ -240,10 +240,10 @@ numeric argument stores zero in the register.
 
   If you visit certain file names frequently, you can visit them more
 conveniently if you put their names in registers.  Here's the Lisp code
-used to put a file name in a register:
+used to put a file @var{name} into register @var{r}:
 
 @smallexample
-(set-register ?@var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
+(set-register @var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
 @end smallexample
 
 @need 3000