* lisp/simple.el (newline): Doc tweak.

* etc/NEWS: Related edit.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 04af3ca01a5..ae71a8f8e65 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2014-03-06  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+        * simple.el (newline): Doc tweak.
+
         * emacs-lisp/shadow.el (load-path-shadows-find):
         Ignore dir-locals.  (Bug#12357)
 
diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index 200e86596d7..f9447b1fff4 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -383,8 +383,9 @@ If option `use-hard-newlines' is non-nil, the newline is marked with the
 text-property `hard'.
 With ARG, insert that many newlines.
 
-To turn off indentation by this command, disable Electric Indent mode
-\(see \\[electric-indent-mode]).
+If `electric-indent-mode' is enabled, this indents the final new line
+that it adds, and reindents the preceding line.  To just insert
+a newline, use \\[electric-indent-just-newline].
 
 Calls `auto-fill-function' if the current column number is greater
 than the value of `fill-column' and ARG is nil.