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(RegText): Document append-to-register and prepend-to-register.

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Suggested by Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk>
Add index entries to sections of the Registers chapter.
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@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Display a description of what register @var{r} contains.
@node RegPos
@section Saving Positions in Registers
@cindex saving position in a register
Saving a position records a place in a buffer so that you can move
back there later. Moving to a saved position switches to that buffer
@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ that were visiting files.
@node RegText
@section Saving Text in Registers
@cindex saving text in a register
When you want to insert a copy of the same piece of text several
times, it may be inconvenient to yank it from the kill ring, since each
@ -81,6 +83,10 @@ is to store the text in a register and later retrieve it.
Copy region into register @var{r} (@code{copy-to-register}).
@item C-x r i @var{r}
Insert text from register @var{r} (@code{insert-register}).
@item M-x append-to-register @key{RET} @var{r}
Append region to text in register @var{r}.
@item M-x prepend-to-register @key{RET} @var{r}
Prepend region to text in register @var{r}.
@end table
@kindex C-x r s
@ -92,6 +98,16 @@ the register named @var{r}. @kbd{C-u C-x r s @var{r}}, the same
command with a numeric argument, deletes the text from the buffer as
well; you can think of this as ``moving'' the region text into the register.
@findex append-to-register
@findex prepend-to-register
@kbd{M-x append-to-register @key{RET} @var{r}} appends the copy of
the text in the region to the text already stored in the register
named @var{r}. If invoked with a numeric argument, it deletes the
region after appending it to the register. A similar command
@code{prepend-to-register} works the same, except that it
@emph{prepends} the region text to the text in the register, rather
than @emph{appending} it.
@kbd{C-x r i @var{r}} inserts in the buffer the text from register
@var{r}. Normally it leaves point before the text and places the mark
after, but with a numeric argument (@kbd{C-u}) it puts point after the
@ -99,6 +115,7 @@ text and the mark before.
@node RegRect
@section Saving Rectangles in Registers
@cindex saving rectangle in a register
A register can contain a rectangle instead of linear text. The
rectangle is represented as a list of strings. @xref{Rectangles}, for
@ -125,6 +142,7 @@ as sorting a rectangle. @xref{Sorting}.
@node RegConfig
@section Saving Window Configurations in Registers
@cindex saving window configuration in a register
@findex window-configuration-to-register
@findex frame-configuration-to-register
@ -151,6 +169,7 @@ instead, use @kbd{C-u C-x r j @var{r}}.
@node RegNumbers
@section Keeping Numbers in Registers
@cindex saving number in a register
There are commands to store a number in a register, to insert
the number in the buffer in decimal, and to increment it. These commands
@ -177,6 +196,7 @@ numeric argument stores zero in the register.
@node RegFiles
@section Keeping File Names in Registers
@cindex saving fuile name in a 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