* regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables.

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 790c50196cb9decc6aa655dbe8d0d338a7f07d28..19914cc75ddec62f8bdecbda82237a59f3cc06cf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2014-02-08  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+       * regs.texi (File Registers): Clarify metasyntactical variables
+       (bug#13565).
+
        * search.texi (Search Case): Rearrange text slightly to make it
        obvious that `M-c' also toggles sensitivity if `case-fold-search'
        is nil (bug#14726).

diff --git a/doc/emacs/regs.texi b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
index 8968cbbcffaab0becfa2c40184784714c0c9167d..5bc22e94ed33f7f3e2d6ef0011dd256e604e86d7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/regs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/regs.texi
@@ -240,10 +240,10 @@ numeric argument stores zero in the register.
 
   If you visit certain file names frequently, you can visit them more
 conveniently if you put their names in registers.  Here's the Lisp code
-used to put a file name in a register:
+used to put a file @var{name} into register @var{r}:
 
 @smallexample
-(set-register ?@var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
+(set-register @var{r} '(file . @var{name}))
 @end smallexample
 
 @need 3000