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| author | Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> | 2007-12-14 07:38:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> | 2007-12-14 07:38:58 +0000 |
| commit | e2e3f1d7ee4564a4ac3f3c45045f9671d6ad6e60 (patch) | |
| tree | 91688e5eba91342baa46cf26e308ee259a2501e1 /doc | |
| parent | 27a4f44552df79f12a8bc2840d5e1e0a3aad892b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e2e3f1d7ee4564a4ac3f3c45045f9671d6ad6e60.tar.gz | |
(Encoding and I/O): Reword to avoid saying
"visit the current buffer".
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/nonascii.texi | 18 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 14d8190385d..bfeb88f7830 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2007-12-14 Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> + * nonascii.texi (Encoding and I/O): Reword to avoid saying + "visit the current buffer". + * os.texi (System Interface): Fix typo. 2007-12-04 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi index 7c504aef2cd..16f70f57b9d 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi @@ -727,15 +727,15 @@ operation finishes the job of choosing a coding system. Very often you will want to find out afterwards which coding system was chosen. @defvar buffer-file-coding-system -This buffer-local variable records the coding system that was used to visit -the current buffer. It is used for saving the buffer, and for writing part -of the buffer with @code{write-region}. If the text to be written -cannot be safely encoded using the coding system specified by this -variable, these operations select an alternative encoding by calling -the function @code{select-safe-coding-system} (@pxref{User-Chosen -Coding Systems}). If selecting a different encoding requires to ask -the user to specify a coding system, @code{buffer-file-coding-system} -is updated to the newly selected coding system. +This buffer-local variable records the coding system used for saving the +buffer and for writing part of the buffer with @code{write-region}. If +the text to be written cannot be safely encoded using the coding system +specified by this variable, these operations select an alternative +encoding by calling the function @code{select-safe-coding-system} +(@pxref{User-Chosen Coding Systems}). If selecting a different encoding +requires to ask the user to specify a coding system, +@code{buffer-file-coding-system} is updated to the newly selected coding +system. @code{buffer-file-coding-system} does @emph{not} affect sending text to a subprocess. |