@table @kbd
@item M-x gdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET}
@findex gdb
-This command runs GDB as a subprocess of Emacs. It creates a buffer
+Run GDB as a subprocess of Emacs. This command creates a buffer
for input and output to GDB, and switches to it. If a GDB buffer
already exists, it just switches to that buffer.
@item M-x dbx @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET}
@findex dbx
-Similar, but runs DBX instead of GDB.
+Similar, but run DBX instead of GDB.
@item M-x xdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET}
@findex xdb
@vindex gud-xdb-directories
-Similar, but runs XDB instead of GDB. Use the variable
+Similar, but run XDB instead of GDB. Use the variable
@code{gud-xdb-directories} to specify directories to search for source
files.
@item M-x sdb @key{RET} @var{file} @key{RET}
@findex sdb
-Similar, but runs SDB instead of GDB.
+Similar, but run SDB instead of GDB.
Some versions of SDB do not mention source file names in their
messages. When you use them, you need to have a valid tags table
@item Deletion of Messages
Deleting a message means flagging it to be eliminated from your mail
file. Until you expunge (q.v.@:) the Rmail file, you can still undelete
-the messages you have flagged to be deleted. @xref{Rmail Deletion}.
+the messages you have deleted. @xref{Rmail Deletion}.
@item Deletion of Windows
Deleting a window means eliminating it from the screen. Other windows
@item Justification
Justification means adding extra spaces within lines of text to make
-them align exactly to a specified width.
+them extend exactly to a specified width.
@xref{Filling,Justification}.
@item Keyboard Macro
Merge the previous and the current line (@code{delete-indentation}).
This would cancel out the effect of @kbd{C-j}.
@item C-M-o
-Split the line at point; text on the line after point becomes a new line
-indented to the same column where point is located (@code{split-line}).
+Split the current line at point; text on the line after point becomes a
+new line indented to the same column where point is located
+(@code{split-line}).
@item M-m
Move (forward or back) to the first nonblank character on the current
line (@code{back-to-indentation}).
feature more useful, each buffer remembers 16 previous locations of the
mark, in the @dfn{mark ring}. Commands that set the mark also push the
old mark onto this ring. To return to a marked location, use @kbd{C-u
-C-@key{SPC}} (or @kbd{C-u C-@@}); this is the same as the command
+C-@key{SPC}} (or @kbd{C-u C-@@}); this is the command
@code{set-mark-command} given a numeric argument. It moves point to
where the mark was, and restores the mark from the ring of former
marks. Thus, repeated use of this command moves point to all of the old
non-@code{nil}. If @code{resize-mini-windows} is @code{t}, the window
is always resized to fit the size of the text it displays. If
@code{resize-mini-windows} is the symbol @code{grow-only}, the window
-is enlarged when the size of displayed text grows, but never shrinked
-until it becomes empty, at which point it shrinks back to its normal
-size.
+is enlarged when the size of displayed text grows, but never reduced
+in size until it becomes empty, at which point it shrinks back to its
+normal size.
@vindex max-mini-window-height
The variable @code{max-mini-window-height} controls the maximum
With the X resource @samp{Emacs.Font}, you can specify a fontset name
just like an actual font name. But be careful not to specify a fontset
name in a wildcard resource like @samp{Emacs*Font}---that wildcard
-specification is used for various other purposes, such as menus, and
+specification matches various other resources, such as menus, and
menus cannot handle fontsets.
You can specify additional fontsets using X resources named