# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1079183081 0
# Node ID d8314f01e053266c720c87db136b968a97a421ed
# Parent  d113031a7e95b82414d5bc17e4863b59ce305474
(woman-preserve-ascii): Default value changed to t and
doc string revised.

diff -r d113031a7e95 -r d8314f01e053 lisp/woman.el
--- a/lisp/woman.el	Sat Mar 13 12:56:53 2004 +0000
+++ b/lisp/woman.el	Sat Mar 13 13:04:41 2004 +0000
@@ -832,10 +832,15 @@
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'woman-formatting)
 
-(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii nil
-  "*If non-nil then preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer.
-Otherwise, non-ASCII characters (that display as ASCII) may remain.
-This is irrelevant unless the buffer is to be saved to a file."
+(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii t
+  "*If non-nil, preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer.
+Otherwise, to save time, some backslashes and spaces may be
+represented differently (as the values of the variables
+`woman-escaped-escape-char' and `woman-unpadded-space-char'
+respectively) so that the buffer content is strictly wrong even though
+it should display correctly.  This should be irrelevant unless the
+buffer text is searched, copied or saved to a file."
+  ;; This option should probably be removed!
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'woman-formatting)