@c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 93, 94, 95, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002,
+@c 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
-@node Registers, Display, Rectangles, Top
+@node Registers, Display, CUA Bindings, Top
@chapter Registers
@cindex registers
register once, or many times.
@findex view-register
- Each register has a name, which consists of a single character.
-A register can
-store a piece of text, a rectangle, a position, a window configuration,
-or a file name, but only one thing at any given time. Whatever you
-store in a register remains there until you store something else in that
-register. To see what a register @var{r} contains, use @kbd{M-x
-view-register}.
+ Each register has a name, which consists of a single character. A
+register can store a number, a piece of text, a rectangle, a position,
+a window configuration, or a file name, but only one thing at any
+given time. Whatever you store in a register remains there until you
+store something else in that register. To see what a register @var{r}
+contains, use @kbd{M-x view-register}.
@table @kbd
@item M-x view-register @key{RET} @var{r}
Display a description of what register @var{r} contains.
@end table
+ @dfn{Bookmarks} record files and positions in them, so you can
+return to those positions when you look at the file again.
+Bookmarks are similar enough in spirit to registers that they
+seem to belong in this chapter.
+
@menu
* Position: RegPos. Saving positions in registers.
* Text: RegText. Saving text in registers.