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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2013-10-29 10:49:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2013-10-29 10:49:10 -0400 |
| commit | 23af34b00ca14782ba5d1bbada43cd26962739b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ec8e1df6cd53663c251fb1418a3cba2e40fa066 /doc | |
| parent | 7e3561eec6fe69e5ef37dca29008ca6eaf587b23 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-23af34b00ca14782ba5d1bbada43cd26962739b4.tar.gz | |
* doc/lispref/display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit
selective display.
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2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 3007db94975..f2ca420ea90 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-10-29 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> + + * display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit + selective display. + 2013-10-29 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> * display.texi (Showing Images): Add an index for image-size. diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi index 129fb76f238..898da89c24a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/display.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi @@ -962,11 +962,10 @@ make it invisible again. hiding certain lines on the screen. @cindex explicit selective display - The first variant, explicit selective display, is designed for use -in a Lisp program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the -text. This kind of hiding in some ways resembles the effect of the -@code{invisible} property (@pxref{Invisible Text}), but the two -features are different and do not work the same way. + The first variant, explicit selective display, was designed for use in a Lisp +program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the text. This kind of +hiding is now obsolete; instead you can get the same effect with the +@code{invisible} property (@pxref{Invisible Text}). In the second variant, the choice of lines to hide is made automatically based on indentation. This variant is designed to be a |