Mercurial > emacs
changeset 31142:7d0a8b91a6c0
Mention that Lisp files are normally read as multibyte.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:03:06 +0000 |
| parents | a7c55d999688 |
| children | 1ff8dc8dbffc |
| files | man/cmdargs.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/cmdargs.texi Thu Aug 24 08:01:48 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi Thu Aug 24 08:03:06 2000 +0000 @@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ Enable the Emacs Lisp debugger for errors in the init file. @item --unibyte -@cindex unibyte operation +@cindex unibyte operation, command-line argument Set up to do almost everything with single-byte buffers and strings. All buffers and strings are unibyte unless you (or a Lisp program) -explicitly ask for a multibyte buffer or string. Setting the -environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE} has the same effect. +explicitly ask for a multibyte buffer or string. (Note that when Emacs +loads Lisp files for runnning, it normally does that in multibyte mode, +even if @samp{--unibyte} is specified; see @ref{Enabling Multibyte}.) +Setting the environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE} has the same +effect. @item --multibyte Inhibit the effect of @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE}, so that Emacs @@ -307,7 +310,7 @@ The name of the Internet domain that the machine running Emacs is located in. Used by the @sc{gnus} package. @item EMACS_UNIBYTE -@cindex unibyte operation +@cindex unibyte operation, environment variable Defining this environment variable directs Emacs to do almost everything with single-byte buffers and strings. It is equivalent to using the @samp{--unibyte} command-line option on each invocation. @xref{Initial