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changeset 72820:501a2788cfa4
(Display Table Format): Wording clarification
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:32:20 +0000 |
| parents | 88df7387d588 |
| children | 887a1899eee7 |
| files | lispref/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/display.texi Mon Sep 11 22:33:46 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/display.texi Tue Sep 12 01:32:20 2006 +0000 @@ -5118,13 +5118,14 @@ The ordinary elements of the display table are indexed by character codes; the element at index @var{c} says how to display the character -code @var{c}. The value should be @code{nil} or a vector of glyph -values (@pxref{Glyphs}). If an element is @code{nil}, it says to -display that character according to the usual display conventions +code @var{c}. The value should be @code{nil} or a vector of the +glyphs to be output (@pxref{Glyphs}). @code{nil} says to display the +character @var{c} according to the usual display conventions (@pxref{Usual Display}). - If you use the display table to change the display of newline -characters, the whole buffer will be displayed as one long ``line.'' + @strong{Warning:} if you use the display table to change the display +of newline characters, the whole buffer will be displayed as one long +``line.'' The display table also has six ``extra slots'' which serve special purposes. Here is a table of their meanings; @code{nil} in any slot