@c Do not blithely break or fill these lines.
@c That makes them incorrect.
+@group
+minibuffer-temporary-goal-position Variable
+not documented
+@end group
+
@group
set-goal-column Keys: C-x C-n
Set the current horizontal position as a goal for C-n and C-p.
@group
Those commands will move to this position in the line moved to
rather than trying to keep the same horizontal position.
-With a non-nil argument, clears out the goal column
+With a non-nil argument ARG, clears out the goal column
so that C-n and C-p resume vertical motion.
-The goal column is stored in the variable `goal-column'.
+The goal column is stored in the variable ‘goal-column’.
+
+(fn ARG)
@end group
@group
temporary-goal-column Variable
Current goal column for vertical motion.
-It is the column where point was
-at the start of current run of vertical motion commands.
-When the `track-eol' feature is doing its job, the value is 9999.
+It is the column where point was at the start of the current run
+of vertical motion commands.
+
+When moving by visual lines via the function ‘line-move-visual’, it is a cons
+cell (COL . HSCROLL), where COL is the x-position, in pixels,
+divided by the default column width, and HSCROLL is the number of
+columns by which window is scrolled from left margin.
+
+When the ‘track-eol’ feature is doing its job, the value is
+‘most-positive-fixnum’.
---------- Buffer: *Help* ----------
@end group
@end smallexample
we describe some program-level interfaces to the same information.
@deffn Command apropos pattern &optional do-all
-This function finds all ``meaningful'' symbols whose names contain a
+This function finds all meaningful symbols whose names contain a
match for the apropos pattern @var{pattern}. An apropos pattern is
either a word to match, a space-separated list of words of which at
least two must match, or a regular expression (if any special regular
-expression characters occur). A symbol is ``meaningful'' if it has a
+expression characters occur). A symbol is meaningful if it has a
definition as a function, variable, or face, or has properties.
The function returns a list of elements that look like this:
@defopt help-event-list
The value of this variable is a list of event types that serve as
-alternative ``help characters''. These events are handled just like the
+alternative help characters. These events are handled just like the
event specified by @code{help-char}.
@end defopt
@end deffn
The following two functions are meant for modes that want to provide
-help without relinquishing control, such as the ``electric'' modes.
+help without relinquishing control, such as the electric modes.
Their names begin with @samp{Helper} to distinguish them from the
ordinary help functions.