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2007-04-09 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* simple.el (set-mark-command): Doc fix.
2007-04-09 Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
* progmodes/gud.el (gdb): Restore existing session if user

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:group 'editing)
(defun set-mark-command (arg)
"Set mark at where point is, or jump to mark.
With no prefix argument, set mark, and push old mark position on local
mark ring; also push mark on global mark ring if last mark was set in
"Set mark where point is, or jump to mark.
Setting the mark also sets the \"region\", which is the closest
equivalent in Emacs to what some editors call the \"selection\".
With no prefix argument, set mark and push old mark position on local
mark ring. Also, push mark on global mark ring, if last mark was set in
another buffer. Immediately repeating the command activates
`transient-mark-mode' temporarily.
With argument, e.g. \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], \
jump to mark, and pop a new position
for mark off the local mark ring \(this does not affect the global
mark ring\). Use \\[pop-global-mark] to jump to a mark off the global
With prefix argument \(e.g., \\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command]\), \
jump to mark, and set mark from
position popped off the local mark ring \(this does not affect the global
mark ring\). Use \\[pop-global-mark] to jump to a mark popped off the global
mark ring \(see `pop-global-mark'\).
If `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' is non-nil, repeating
the \\[set-mark-command] command with no prefix pops the next position
the \\[set-mark-command] command with no prefix argument pops the next position
off the local (or global) mark ring and jumps there.
With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument, e.g. \\[universal-argument] \
\\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command], unconditionally
set mark where point is.
Setting the mark also sets the \"region\", which is the closest
equivalent in Emacs to what some editors call the \"selection\".
With a double \\[universal-argument] prefix argument \(e.g., \\[universal-argument] \
\\[universal-argument] \\[set-mark-command]\), unconditionally
set mark where point is, even if `set-mark-command-repeat-pop' is non-nil.
Novice Emacs Lisp programmers often try to use the mark for the wrong
purposes. See the documentation of `set-mark' for more information."