Fix inaccuracies in documentation of 'message-truncate-lines'

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Echo Area Customization):
* src/xdisp.c (syms_of_xdisp): Adjust the documentation of
message-truncate-lines to changes that fixed bug#46718.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 79fb72a464db6c02f6a37a94147904b29e7045fd..7ab2896778da0e40bf78efc26be3259da68b2195 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -646,9 +646,9 @@ If the value is zero, then command input is not echoed.
 
 @defvar message-truncate-lines
 Normally, displaying a long message resizes the echo area to display
-the entire message.  But if the variable @code{message-truncate-lines}
-is non-@code{nil}, the echo area does not resize, and the message is
-truncated to fit it.
+the entire message, wrapping long line as needed.  But if the variable
+@code{message-truncate-lines} is non-@code{nil}, long lines of
+echo-area message are instead truncated to fit the mini-window width.
 @end defvar
 
   The variable @code{max-mini-window-height}, which specifies the

diff --git a/src/xdisp.c b/src/xdisp.c
index 0846af268ebc6c3a1bb772ed84553ec794902af3..e853c8c2232dec2d9f54f6599e4a78742db25fae 100644 (file)
--- a/src/xdisp.c
+++ b/src/xdisp.c
@@ -35445,7 +35445,7 @@ and `scroll-right' overrides this variable's effect.  */);
   Vhscroll_step = make_fixnum (0);
 
   DEFVAR_BOOL ("message-truncate-lines", message_truncate_lines,
-    doc: /* If non-nil, messages are truncated instead of resizing the echo area.
+    doc: /* If non-nil, messages are truncated when displaying the echo area.
 Bind this around calls to `message' to let it take effect.  */);
   message_truncate_lines = false;