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(Text Display): Mention non-breaking spaces.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:46:55 +0000
parents 3b4d5e41f3fd
children 12780efcd4fc
files man/display.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/display.texi	Sat Mar 26 00:20:27 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/display.texi	Sat Mar 26 01:46:55 2005 +0000
@@ -913,6 +913,15 @@
 them), otherwise as escape sequences.  @xref{Single-Byte Character
 Support}.
 
+@vindex show-nonbreak-escape
+  Some character sets define ``non-breaking'' versions of the space
+and hyphen characters, which are used where a line should not be
+broken.  Emacs displays these with an escape character in order to
+distinguish them from ordinary spaces and hyphens.  For example, a
+non-breaking space is displayed as @samp{\ }.  You can turn off this
+behavior by setting the variable @code{show-nonbreak-escape} to
+@code{nil}.
+
 @node Cursor Display
 @section Displaying the Cursor