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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/buffer.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c index 706410a2ed..5eace5b96e 100644 --- a/src/buffer.c +++ b/src/buffer.c @@ -5160,21 +5160,22 @@ This is the same as (default-value 'indicate-empty-lines). */); DEFVAR_LISP_NOPRO ("default-scroll-up-aggressively", &buffer_defaults.scroll_up_aggressively, - doc: /* Default value of `scroll-up-aggressively' for buffers that -don't override it. This is the same as (default-value -'scroll-up-aggressively). */); + doc: /* Default value of `scroll-up-aggressively'. +This value applies in buffers that don't have their own local values. +This variable is an alias for (default-value 'scroll-up-aggressively). */); DEFVAR_LISP_NOPRO ("default-scroll-down-aggressively", &buffer_defaults.scroll_down_aggressively, - doc: /* Default value of `scroll-down-aggressively' for buffers that -don't override it. This is the same as (default-value -'scroll-down-aggressively). */); + doc: /* Default value of `scroll-down-aggressively'. +This value applies in buffers that don't have their own local values. +This variable is an alias for (default-value 'scroll-down-aggressively). */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("header-line-format", ¤t_buffer->header_line_format, Qnil, - doc: /* Analogous to `mode-line-format', but for the mode line that can be -displayed at the top of a window. */); + doc: /* Analogous to `mode-line-format', but controls the header line. +The header line appears, optionally, at the top of a window; +the mode line appears at the bottom. */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("mode-line-format", ¤t_buffer->mode_line_format, Qnil, @@ -5290,8 +5291,8 @@ This variable is never applied to a way of decoding a file while reading it. */ doc: /* *Non-nil means lines in the buffer are displayed right to left. */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("truncate-lines", ¤t_buffer->truncate_lines, Qnil, - doc: /* *Non-nil means do not display continuation lines; -give each line of text one screen line. + doc: /* *Non-nil means do not display continuation lines. +Instead, give each line of text just one screen line. Note that this is overridden by the variable `truncate-partial-width-windows' if that variable is non-nil @@ -5332,8 +5333,8 @@ and then abbreviated with `abbreviate-file-name'. */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("buffer-auto-save-file-name", ¤t_buffer->auto_save_file_name, make_number (Lisp_String), - doc: /* Name of file for auto-saving current buffer, -or nil if buffer should not be auto-saved. */); + doc: /* Name of file for auto-saving current buffer. +If it is nil, that means don't auto-save this buffer. */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("buffer-read-only", ¤t_buffer->read_only, Qnil, doc: /* Non-nil if this buffer is read-only. */); @@ -5349,11 +5350,12 @@ Backing up is done before the first time the file is saved. */); DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("selective-display", ¤t_buffer->selective_display, Qnil, - doc: /* Non-nil enables selective display: -Integer N as value means display only lines - that start with less than n columns of space. -A value of t means, after a ^M, all the rest of the line is invisible. - Then ^M's in the file are written into files as newlines. */); + doc: /* Non-nil enables selective display. +An Integer N as value means display only lines +that start with less than n columns of space. +A value of t means that the character ^M makes itself and +all the rest of the line invisible; also, when saving the buffer +in a file, save the ^M as a newline. */); #ifndef old DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("selective-display-ellipses", |