APPROVE COMMIT NOTE: This patch has been committed. man/ChangeLog addition: 2007-11-14 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * xemacs/keystrokes.texi (Character Representation): Clarify the description of which characters are displayed as themselves and which as octal escapes bzw. "control" characters with an initial caret. XEmacs Trunk source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -Nu Files affected: man/xemacs/keystrokes.texi =================================================================== RCS Index: man/xemacs/keystrokes.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/man/xemacs/keystrokes.texi,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -u -r1.5 keystrokes.texi --- man/xemacs/keystrokes.texi 2005/12/24 19:53:58 1.5 +++ man/xemacs/keystrokes.texi 2007/11/14 18:03:37 ＠＠ -444,18 +444,23 ＠＠ buffers. ＠xref{Key Sequences}, for information on representing key sequences to create key bindings. - ASCII graphic characters in Emacs buffers are displayed with their -graphics. ＠key{LFD} is the same as a newline character; it is displayed -by starting a new line. ＠key{TAB} is displayed by moving to the next -tab stop column (usually every 8 spaces). Other control characters are -displayed as a caret (＠samp{^}) followed by the non-control version of -the character; thus, ＠kbd{C-a} is displayed as ＠samp{^A}. Non-ASCII -characters 128 and up are displayed with octal escape sequences; thus, -character code 243 (octal), also called ＠kbd{M-#} when used as an input -character, is displayed as ＠samp{\243}. + Printable characters (letters, numbers, punctuation and so on) in +XEmacs buffers are displayed as such. ＠key{LFD} (line feed, character +code ＠samp{\012} (octal)) is the same as a newline character; it is +displayed by starting a new line. ＠key{TAB} is displayed by moving to +the next tab stop column (usually every 8 spaces). Other control +characters below #x20 (hexadecimal) are displayed as a caret (＠samp{^}) +followed by the non-control version of the character; thus, ＠kbd{C-a} is +displayed as ＠samp{^A}. Characters between (hexadecimal) #x80 and #xA0 +are displayed with octal escape sequences; thus, character code 243 +(octal), also called ＠kbd{M-#} when used as an input character, is +displayed as ＠samp{\243}. The variable ＠code{ctl-arrow} may be used to alter this behavior. -＠xref{Display Vars}. +＠xref{Display Vars}. As a rule, its value limits octal display to those +characters in the range just mentioned, and otherwise characters are +treated as printable, and will be displayed as themselves when the +relevant fonts are available. ＠node Commands, Non-Latin keyboards, Character Representation, Keystrokes ＠section Keys and Commands -- On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches