diff lispref/display.texi @ 90203:187d6a1f84f7

Revision: miles@gnu.org--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-71 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 485-492) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 92-94) - Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 - Update from CVS
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:27:27 +0000
parents fbb2bea03df9 4dcefa44889e
children 2d92f5c9d6ae
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--- a/lispref/display.texi	Tue Jul 19 02:58:20 2005 +0000
+++ b/lispref/display.texi	Fri Jul 22 08:27:27 2005 +0000
@@ -1133,12 +1133,14 @@
 current buffer.
 
 The arguments @var{front-advance} and @var{rear-advance} specify the
-insertion type for the start of the overlay and for the end of the
-overlay, respectively.  @xref{Marker Insertion Types}.  If
-@var{front-advance} is non-@code{nil}, text inserted at the beginning
-of the overlay is excluded from the overlay.  If @var{read-advance} is
-non-@code{nil}, text inserted at the beginning of the overlay is
-included in the overlay.
+marker insertion type for the start of the overlay and for the end of
+the overlay, respectively.  @xref{Marker Insertion Types}.  If they
+are both @code{nil}, the default, then the overlay extends to include
+any text inserted at the beginning, but not text inserted at the end.
+If @var{front-advance} is non-@code{nil}, text inserted at the
+beginning of the overlay is excluded from the overlay.  If
+@var{rear-advance} is non-@code{nil}, text inserted at the end of the
+overlay is included in the overlay.
 @end defun
 
 @defun overlay-start overlay