diff man/display.texi @ 90133:4da4a09e8b1b

Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-31 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 206-222) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 45-52) - Update from CVS - Update from CVS: texi Makefile.in CVS keyw cruft - Update from CVS: ChangeLog tweaks

--- a/man/display.texi	Tue Mar 29 00:48:14 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/display.texi	Thu Mar 31 09:58:14 2005 +0000
@@ -913,6 +913,17 @@
 them), otherwise as escape sequences.  @xref{Single-Byte Character
 Support}.
 
+@vindex show-nonbreak-escape
+@cindex no-break space, display
+@cindex no-break hyphen, display
+  Some character sets define ``no-break'' versions of the space
+and hyphen characters, which are used where a line should not be
+broken.  Emacs displays these with an escape character in order to
+distinguish them from ordinary spaces and hyphens.  For example, a
+non-breaking space is displayed as @samp{\ }.  You can turn off this
+behavior by setting the variable @code{show-nonbreak-escape} to
+@code{nil}.
+
 @node Cursor Display
 @section Displaying the Cursor