changeset 101860:8f7ed9f9309f

(Translation of Characters): Reinstate documentation of translation-table-for-input.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:07:22 +0000
parents 351adec348be
children cd9537533674
files doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi	Sat Feb 07 11:04:22 2009 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi	Sat Feb 07 11:07:22 2009 +0000
@@ -751,6 +751,15 @@
 value of this variable, if non-@code{nil}, is applied after them.
 @end defvar
 
+@defvar translation-table-for-input
+Self-inserting characters are translated through this translation
+table before they are inserted.  Search commands also translate their
+input through this table, so they can compare more reliably with
+what's in the buffer.
+
+This variable automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
+@end defvar
+
 @defun make-translation-table-from-vector vec
 This function returns a translation table made from @var{vec} that is
 an array of 256 elements to map byte values 0 through 255 to