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author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> | 2001-01-10 15:24:55 +0000 |
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committer | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> | 2001-01-10 15:24:55 +0000 |
commit | 457b792c1ee8d3d0708c181c0f65eee35bb6ce23 (patch) | |
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download | emacs-457b792c1ee8d3d0708c181c0f65eee35bb6ce23.tar.gz |
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diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi index f75a446f27e..c323e1064b1 100644 --- a/man/basic.texi +++ b/man/basic.texi @@ -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 |