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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2006-12-01 13:22:29 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2006-12-01 13:22:29 +0000
commit187d8f814852c07553eb5e6425a21499a5d06a61 (patch)
treedeffa18485417d47a510b3551e049ff53ec72533
parent4abc74e836f5bbc8503558f967d8ff72bda0b902 (diff)
(Enabling Multibyte): Rephrase the confusing reference to a colon in the mode
line.
-rw-r--r--man/mule.texi12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi
index e9a30301ed..3e7a35d246 100644
--- a/man/mule.texi
+++ b/man/mule.texi
@@ -212,11 +212,13 @@ always load any particular Lisp file in the same way. However, you can
load a Lisp file as unibyte, on any one occasion, by typing @kbd{C-x
@key{RET} c raw-text @key{RET}} immediately before loading it.
- The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled
-in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most
-often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line.
-When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon
-except a single dash.
+ The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is
+enabled in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more
+characters (most often two dashes) near the beginning of the mode
+line, before the indication of the visited file's end-of-line
+convention (colon, backslash, etc.). When multibyte characters
+are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon except a single dash.
+@xref{Mode Line}, for more details about this.
@node Language Environments
@section Language Environments