* Language Help:: Help relating to international language support.
* Misc Help:: Other help commands.
* Help Files:: Commands to display auxiliary help files.
-* Help Echo:: Help on active text and tooltips ("balloon help").
+* Help Echo:: Help on active text and tooltips (``balloon help'').
@end menu
@iftex
Display a description of your last 300 keystrokes
(@code{view-lossage}).
@item C-h m
-Display documentation of the current major mode (@code{describe-mode}).
+Display documentation of the current major mode and minor modes
+(@code{describe-mode}).
@item C-h n
Display news of recent Emacs changes (@code{view-emacs-news}).
@item C-h p
@end quotation
@vindex apropos-do-all
- If the variable @code{apropos-do-all} is non-@code{nil}, the apropos
-commands always behave as if they had been given a prefix argument.
+ If the variable @code{apropos-do-all} is non-@code{nil}, most
+apropos commands behave as if they had been given a prefix argument.
+There is one exception: @code{apropos-variable} without a prefix
+argument will always search for all variables, no matter what the
+value of @code{apropos-do-all} is.
@vindex apropos-sort-by-scores
@cindex apropos search results, order by score
Display information about ordering printed copies of Emacs manuals
(@code{view-order-manuals}).
@item C-h C-n
-Display the ``news'' file, which lists the new features in this
+Display the news, which lists the new features in this
version of Emacs (@code{view-emacs-news}).
@item C-h C-o
Display how to order or download the latest version of
@cindex tooltips
@cindex balloon help
- In Emacs, stretches of ``active text'' (text that does something
+@cindex active text
+ In Emacs, stretches of @dfn{active text} (text that does something
special in response to mouse clicks or @key{RET}) often have
associated help text. This includes hyperlinks in Emacs buffers, as
well as parts of the mode line. On graphical displays, as well as