changeset 18825:36119d2da68a

(quoted-insert): Doc fix.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Thu, 17 Jul 1997 04:45:19 +0000
parents 41c3ad77f90a
children cb22b83e1bf8
files lisp/simple.el
diffstat 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/simple.el	Wed Jul 16 20:55:50 1997 +0000
+++ b/lisp/simple.el	Thu Jul 17 04:45:19 1997 +0000
@@ -160,8 +160,10 @@
 
 If the first character you type after this command is an octal digit,
 you should type a sequence of octal digits which specify a character code.
-Any nondigit terminates the sequence.  If the terminator is a space,
+Any nondigit terminates the sequence.  If the terminator is a RET,
 it is discarded; any other terminator is used itself as input.
+The variable `read-quoted-char-radix' specifies the radix for this feature;
+set it to 10 or 16 to use decimal or hex instead of octal.
 
 In overwrite mode, this function inserts the character anyway, and
 does not handle octal digits specially.  This means that if you use