changeset 27374:0f5edee5242b

*** empty log message ***
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:18:58 +0000
parents a6d5729aef1d
children 517cdf51989f
files lispref/anti.texi lispref/display.texi lispref/frames.texi lispref/keymaps.texi lispref/loading.texi lispref/nonascii.texi lispref/objects.texi lispref/searching.texi lispref/text.texi lispref/windows.texi
diffstat 10 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lispref/anti.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/anti.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 the scroll bars.
 
 @item
-For simplicity, all ASCII characters now have the same height and width.
+For simplicity, all @sc{ascii} characters now have the same height and width.
 (Certain characters, such as Chinese characters, always have twice
 the standard width.)  All characters are created equal.
 
--- a/lispref/display.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/display.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -2096,7 +2096,7 @@
 @end example
 
 @noindent
-the font specification for ASCII characters would be this:
+the font specification for @sc{ascii} characters would be this:
 
 @example
 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-ISO8859-1
--- a/lispref/frames.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/frames.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
 @item font
 The name of the font for displaying text in the frame.  This is a
 string, either a valid font name for your system or the name of an Emacs
-fontset (@pxref{Fontsets}).  Changing this frame parameter on a frame,
+fontset (@pxref{Fontsets}).  Changing this frame parameter on a frame
 also changes the font-related attributes of the default face on that
 frame.
 
@@ -522,9 +522,11 @@
 @item screen-gamma
 If this is a number, Emacs performs ``gamma correction'' on colors.  The
 value should be the screen gamma of your display, a floating point
-number.  Usual PC monitors have a screen gamma of 2.2.  Smaller values
-result in darker colors; you might want to try a screen gamma of 1.5 for
-LCD color displays.  The viewing gamma Emacs uses is 0.4545 (1/2.2).
+number.  Usual PC monitors have a screen gamma of 2.2, so the default is
+to display for that gamma value.  Specifying a smaller value results in
+darker colors, which is desirable for a monitor that tends to display
+colors too light.  A screen gamma value of 1.5 may give good results for
+LCD color displays.
 
 @item tool-bar-lines
 The number of lines to use for the toolbar.  A value of @code{nil} means
@@ -1503,13 +1505,14 @@
 principle from 0 to 65535, but in practice the largest value used is
 65280.
 
-  These functions accept a frame as an optional argument.  We hope in
-the future to make Emacs support multiple text-only terminals; then
-this'argument will specify which terminal to operate on (the default
-being the selected frame).  At present, though, the @var{frame} argument
-has no effect.
+  These functions accept a display (either a frame or the name of a
+terminal) as an optional argument.  We hope in the future to make Emacs
+support more than one text-only terminal at one time; then this argument
+will specify which terminal to operate on (the default being the
+selected frame's terminal).  At present, though, the @var{display}
+argument has no effect.
 
-@defun tty-color-define name number &optional rgb frame
+@defun tty-color-define name number &optional rgb display
 @tindex tty-color-define
 This function associates the color name @var{name} with
 color number @var{number} on the terminal.
@@ -1521,12 +1524,12 @@
 like.
 @end defun
 
-@defun tty-color-clear &optional frame
+@defun tty-color-clear &optional display
 @tindex tty-color-clear
 This function clears the table of defined colors for a text-only terminal.
 @end defun
 
-@defun tty-color-alist &optional frame
+@defun tty-color-alist &optional display
 @tindex tty-color-alist
 This function returns an alist recording the known colors supported by a
 text-only terminal.
@@ -1538,18 +1541,17 @@
 actually looks like.
 @end defun
 
-@defun tty-color-approximate rgb &optional frame
+@defun tty-color-approximate rgb &optional display
 @tindex tty-color-approximate
 This function finds the closest color, among the known colors supported
-for @var{frame}'s terminal, to that described by the rgb value
-@var{rgb}.
+for @var{display}, to that described by the rgb value @var{rgb}.
 @end defun
 
-@defun tty-color-translate color &optional frame
+@defun tty-color-translate color &optional display
 @tindex tty-color-translate
 This function finds the closest color to @var{color} among the known
-colors supported for @var{frame}'s terminal.  If the name @var{color} is
-not defined, the value is @code{nil}.
+colors supported for @var{display}.  If the name @var{color} is not
+defined, the value is @code{nil}.
 
 @var{color} can be an X-style @code{"#@var{xxxyyyzzz}"} specification
 instead of an actual name.  The format
--- a/lispref/keymaps.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/keymaps.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@
 redefines the first (leftmost) mouse button, typed with the Meta key, to
 set point where you click.
 
-@cindex non-ASCII text in keybindings
+@cindex non-@sc{ascii} text in keybindings
   Be careful when using non-@sc{ascii} text characters in Lisp
 specifications of keys to bind.  If these are read as multibyte text, as
 they usually will be in a Lisp file (@pxref{Loading Non-ASCII}), you
--- a/lispref/loading.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/loading.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
 @end deffn
 
 @node Loading Non-ASCII
-@section Loading Non-ASCII Characters
+@section Loading Non-@sc{ascii} Characters
 
   When Emacs Lisp programs contain string constants with non-@sc{ascii}
 characters, these can be represented within Emacs either as unibyte
--- a/lispref/nonascii.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/nonascii.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 @c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
 @setfilename ../info/characters
 @node Non-ASCII Characters, Searching and Matching, Text, Top
-@chapter Non-ASCII Characters
+@chapter Non-@sc{ascii} Characters
 @cindex multibyte characters
-@cindex non-ASCII characters
+@cindex non-@sc{ascii} characters
 
   This chapter covers the special issues relating to non-@sc{ascii}
 characters and how they are stored in strings and buffers.
--- a/lispref/objects.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/objects.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@
 
   Characters in strings, buffers, and files are currently limited to the
 range of 0 to 524287---nineteen bits.  But not all values in that range
-are valid character codes.  Codes 0 through 127 are ASCII codes; the
-rest are non-ASCII (@pxref{Non-ASCII Characters}).  Characters that represent
+are valid character codes.  Codes 0 through 127 are @sc{ascii} codes; the
+rest are non-@sc{ascii} (@pxref{Non-ASCII Characters}).  Characters that represent
 keyboard input have a much wider range, to encode modifier keys such as
 Control, Meta and Shift.
 
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
 @ifnottex
 2**7
 @end ifnottex
-bit attached to an ASCII character indicates a meta character; thus, the
+bit attached to an @sc{ascii} character indicates a meta character; thus, the
 meta characters that can fit in a string have codes in the range from
 128 to 255, and are the meta versions of the ordinary @sc{ascii}
 characters.  (In Emacs versions 18 and older, this convention was used
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@
 @end example
 
 @node Non-ASCII in Strings
-@subsubsection Non-ASCII Characters in Strings
+@subsubsection Non-@sc{ascii} Characters in Strings
 
   You can include a non-@sc{ascii} international character in a string
 constant by writing it literally.  There are two text representations
--- a/lispref/searching.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/searching.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -420,8 +420,8 @@
 This matches @samp{0} through @samp{9}.  Thus, @samp{[-+[:digit:]]}
 matches any digit, as well as @samp{+} and @samp{-}.
 @item [:graph:]
-This matches graphic characters---everything except @sc{ascii} control characters,
-space, and DEL.
+This matches graphic characters---everything except @sc{ascii} control
+characters, space, and the delete character.
 @item [:lower:]
 This matches any lower-case letter, as determined by
 the current case table (@pxref{Case Tables}).
--- a/lispref/text.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/text.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@
 @kindex display @r{(text property)}
 This property activates various features that change the
 way text is displayed.  For example, it can make text appear taller
-or shorter, higher or lower, wider or narror, or replaced with an image.
+or shorter, higher or lower, wider or narrow, or replaced with an image.
 @xref{Display Property}.
 
 @item help-echo
@@ -2834,12 +2834,13 @@
 then insertion before the character can inherit its @code{face} property
 and its @code{read-only} property, but no others.
 
-  The @code{rear-nonsticky} works the opposite way.  A property is
-normally rear-sticky by default, so the @code{rear-nonsticky} property
-says which properties are @emph{not} rear-sticky.  If a character's
-@code{rear-nonsticky} property is @code{t}, then none of its properties
-are rear-sticky.  If the @code{rear-nonsticky} property is a list,
-properties are rear-sticky @emph{unless} their names are in the list.
+  The @code{rear-nonsticky} property works the opposite way.  Most
+properties are rear-sticky by default, so the @code{rear-nonsticky}
+property says which properties are @emph{not} rear-sticky.  If a
+character's @code{rear-nonsticky} property is @code{t}, then none of its
+properties are rear-sticky.  If the @code{rear-nonsticky} property is a
+list, properties are rear-sticky @emph{unless} their names are in the
+list.
 
 @defvar text-property-default-nonsticky
 @tindex text-property-default-nonsticky
@@ -3155,15 +3156,15 @@
 If @var{new-pos} is @code{nil}, then @code{constrain-to-field} uses
 the value of point instead, and moves point to the resulting position.
 
-If @var{old-pos} is at the boundary of two fields, then the allowable
-positions for @var{new-pos} depends on the value of the optional
-argument @var{escape-from-edge}.  If @var{escape-from-edge} is
-@code{nil}, then @var{new-pos} is constrained to the field that has the
-same @code{field} text-property that new characters inserted at
-@var{old-pos} would get.  (This depends on the stickiness of the
-@code{field} property for the characters before and after
-@var{old-pos}.)  If @var{escape-from-edge} is non-@code{nil},
-@var{new-pos} is constrained to the union of the two adjacent fields.
+If @var{old-pos} is at the boundary of two fields, then the acceptable
+positions for @var{new-pos} depend on the value of the optional argument
+@var{escape-from-edge}.  If @var{escape-from-edge} is @code{nil}, then
+@var{new-pos} is constrained to the field that has the same @code{field}
+text-property that new characters inserted at @var{old-pos} would get.
+(This depends on the stickiness of the @code{field} property for the
+characters before and after @var{old-pos}.)  If @var{escape-from-edge}
+is non-@code{nil}, @var{new-pos} is constrained to the union of the two
+adjacent fields.
 
 If the optional argument @var{only-in-line} is non-@code{nil}, and
 constraining @var{new-pos} in the usual way would move it to a different
@@ -3282,10 +3283,10 @@
 
   A register is a sort of variable used in Emacs editing that can hold a
 variety of different kinds of values.  Each register is named by a
-single character.  All ASCII characters and their meta variants (but
-with the exception of @kbd{C-g}) can be used to name registers.  Thus,
-there are 255 possible registers.  A register is designated in Emacs
-Lisp by the character that is its name.
+single character.  All @sc{ascii} characters and their meta variants
+(but with the exception of @kbd{C-g}) can be used to name registers.
+Thus, there are 255 possible registers.  A register is designated in
+Emacs Lisp by the character that is its name.
 
 @defvar register-alist
 This variable is an alist of elements of the form @code{(@var{name} .
--- a/lispref/windows.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:07:38 2000 +0000
+++ b/lispref/windows.texi	Thu Jan 20 18:18:58 2000 +0000
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@
 order.  If count is negative, then it moves back @minus{}@var{count}
 windows in the cycle, rather than forward.  It returns @code{nil}.
 
-The argument @var{all-frames} has the same meaning is as in
+The argument @var{all-frames} has the same meaning as in
 @code{next-window}, but the @var{minibuf} argument of @code{next-window}
 is always effectively @code{nil}.