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authorGerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>2001-01-10 15:24:55 +0000
committerGerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>2001-01-10 15:24:55 +0000
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diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi
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@@ -464,11 +464,16 @@ nonblank line.
@cindex wrapping
@cindex line wrapping
If you add too many characters to one line without breaking it with
-@key{RET}, the line will grow to occupy two (or more) lines on the screen,
-with a @samp{\} at the extreme right margin of all but the last of them.
-The @samp{\} says that the following screen line is not really a distinct
-line in the text, but just the @dfn{continuation} of a line too long to fit
-the screen. Continuation is also called @dfn{line wrapping}.
+@key{RET}, the line will grow to occupy two (or more) lines on the
+screen. On terminals, one or more @samp{\} characters are displayed
+at the extreme right margin of all but the last of them. The @samp{\}
+characters say that the following screen line is not really a distinct
+line in the text, but just the @dfn{continuation} of a line too long
+to fit the screen. Continuation is also called @dfn{line wrapping}.
+More than one @samp{\} is displayed for a wrapped character which is
+wider than one column. On window systems, small bitmaps are displayed
+in the fringes to the left and right of the window to indicate line
+wrapping.
Sometimes it is nice to have Emacs insert newlines automatically when
a line gets too long. Continuation on the screen does not do that. Use
@@ -478,10 +483,12 @@ Auto Fill mode (@pxref{Filling}) if that's what you want.
@findex toggle-truncate-lines
@cindex truncation
As an alternative to continuation, Emacs can display long lines by
-@dfn{truncation}. This means that all the characters that do not fit in
-the width of the screen or window do not appear at all. They remain in
-the buffer, temporarily invisible. @samp{$} is used in the last column
-instead of @samp{\} to inform you that truncation is in effect.
+@dfn{truncation}. This means that all the characters that do not fit
+in the width of the screen or window do not appear at all. They
+remain in the buffer, temporarily invisible. On terminals, @samp{$}
+is used in the last column instead of @samp{\} to inform you that
+truncation is in effect. On window systems, a small bitmap in the
+fringe to the right of the window indicates line truncation.
Truncation instead of continuation happens whenever horizontal
scrolling is in use, and optionally in all side-by-side windows
diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi
index ae6b1444dd5..d127563efa6 100644
--- a/man/mule.texi
+++ b/man/mule.texi
@@ -79,12 +79,17 @@ cases) in the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}).
@kindex C-h h
@findex view-hello-file
+@cindex undisplayable characters
+@cindex ?
+@cindex ??
The command @kbd{C-h h} (@code{view-hello-file}) displays the file
@file{etc/HELLO}, which shows how to say ``hello'' in many languages.
This illustrates various scripts. If the font you're using doesn't have
characters for all those different languages, you will see some hollow
boxes instead of characters; see @ref{Fontsets}. On non-windowing
-displays, @samp{?} is displayed in place of the hollow box.
+displays, @samp{?} is displayed in place of the hollow box. More than
+one @samp{?} is displayed for undisplayable characters that are wider
+than one column.
@findex list-charset-chars
@cindex characters in a certain charset