From 339ef8ceee03aff715cadf8a02b098eee056ec71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenichi Handa Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:03:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows "part of display ...". --- man/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ man/basic.texi | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 66f7caa1ee8..8cb4f3a48a1 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-10-12 Kenichi Handa + + * basic.texi (Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows + "part of display ...". + 2005-10-11 Jay Belanger * calc.texi (Integration): Mention using `a i' to compute definite diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi index 2f5aa3162e1..292de46fc7c 100644 --- a/man/basic.texi +++ b/man/basic.texi @@ -636,10 +636,17 @@ Char: c (0143, 99, 0x63) point=21044 of 26883(78%) column 53 The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in octal, decimal and hex. For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are -followed by @samp{ext} and the character's representation, in hex, in +followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}). If the -character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{ext ...}. +character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{file ...}. + + However, if the character displayed is in the range 0200 through +0377 octal, there's a case that it actually represents an invalid +UTF-8 byte. Emacs represents such a byte in a buffer by a sequence of +8-bit characters, but displays only the original invalid byte in octal +form. In such a case, Emacs shows @samp{part of display ...} instead +of @samp{file}. @samp{point=} is followed by the position of point expressed as a character count. The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later -- 2.11.4.GIT