(General Variables): Update the docs according to current behavior

[gnu-emacs] / man / abbrevs.texi

diff --git a/man/abbrevs.texi b/man/abbrevs.texi
index 165527141c13e7e20d4331f1da0cc8e033a7b32b..50efaf5b32470f1aa1f61b7b704802ac5d792d8a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/abbrevs.texi
+++ b/man/abbrevs.texi
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ to expand the letters in the buffer before point by looking for other
 words in the buffer that start with those letters.  @xref{Dynamic
 Abbrevs}.
 
-`Hippie' expansion generalizes abbreviation expansion.
-@xref{Hippie Expand, `Hippie' Expansion, autotype, Features for
-Automatic Typing}.
+``Hippie'' expansion generalizes abbreviation expansion.  @xref{Hippie
+Expand, , ``Hippie'' Expansion, autotype, Features for Automatic
+Typing}.
 
 @menu
 * Abbrev Concepts::   Fundamentals of defined abbrevs.
@@ -350,10 +350,10 @@ buffers, unless you have set @code{dabbrev-check-all-buffers} to
 @code{nil}.
 
 @vindex dabbrev-ignored-buffer-regexps
-  A more fine control of the buffers that are scanned is possible by
-customizing the variable @code{dabbrev-ignored-buffer-regexps}, which should
-contain a list of regular expressions.  Buffers matching a regular
-expression from that list are not searched.
+  For finer control over which buffers to scan, customize the variable
+@code{dabbrev-ignored-buffer-regexps}.  Its value is a list of regular
+expressions.  If a buffer's name matches any of these regular
+expressions, dynamic abbrev expansion skips that buffer.
 
   A negative argument to @kbd{M-/}, as in @kbd{C-u - M-/}, says to
 search first for expansions after point, and second for expansions