# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 987317240 0 # Node ID 39aa69a68098c83203eeb386891ec2336ae808a1 # Parent 405bb463989f079c8a314dfd2af70fb5ef2ef7b7 (Init Syntax): Add a cross reference to "Non-ASCII Rebinding". (Init Examples): Show how to add an autoload form. diff -r 405bb463989f -r 39aa69a68098 man/custom.texi --- a/man/custom.texi Sun Apr 15 06:19:58 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/custom.texi Sun Apr 15 06:47:20 2001 +0000 @@ -2091,8 +2091,8 @@ @cindex international characters in @file{.emacs} @cindex non-ASCII characters in @file{.emacs} If you want to include non-ASCII characters in strings in your init -file, you should consider putting a @samp{-*-coding: -@var{coding-system}-*-} tag on the first line which states the coding +file, you should consider putting a @w{@samp{-*-coding: +@var{coding-system}-*-}} tag on the first line which states the coding system used to save your @file{.emacs}, as explained in @ref{Recognize Coding}. This is because the defaults for decoding non-ASCII text might not yet be set up by the time Emacs reads those parts of your init file @@ -2106,6 +2106,9 @@ strings and characters are not interchangeable in Lisp; some contexts require one and some contexts require the other. +@xref{Non-ASCII Rebinding}, for information about binding commands to +keys which send non-ASCII characters. + @item True: @code{t} stands for `true'. @@ -2229,6 +2232,24 @@ Here an absolute file name is used, so no searching is done. @item +@cindex loading Lisp libraries automatically +@cindex autoload Lisp libraries +Tell Emacs to automatically load a Lisp library named @file{mypackage} +(i.e.@: a file @file{mypackage.elc} or @file{mypackage.el}) when you +the function @code{myfunction} in that library is called: + +@example +(autoload 'myfunction "mypackage" "Do what I say." t) +@end example + +@noindent +Here the string @code{"Do what I say."} is the function's documentation +string made available to Emacs even when the package is not loaded +(e.g., for commands such as @kbd{C-h a}), and @code{t} tells Emacs this +function is interactive, that is, it can be invoked interactively by +typing @kbd{M-x myfunction @key{RET}} or by binding it to a key. + +@item Rebind the key @kbd{C-x l} to run the function @code{make-symbolic-link}. @example