From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 15:14:21 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Improve documentation of glyphless-char-display
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~2036
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a17b775b6bd476c051ae5ef00b752aacb6cf103;p=emacs.git

Improve documentation of glyphless-char-display

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Glyphless Chars): Improve
documentation of glyphless character display.
---

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index d5d9bb5f66d..05bcd9fd297 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -6614,7 +6614,8 @@ Display a box containing the Unicode codepoint of the character, in
 hexadecimal notation.
 
 @item an @acronym{ASCII} string
-Display a box containing that string.
+Display a box containing that string.  The string should contain at
+most 6 @acronym{ASCII} characters.
 
 @item a cons cell @code{(@var{graphical} . @var{text})}
 Display with @var{graphical} on graphical displays, and with
@@ -6625,7 +6626,8 @@ must be one of the display methods described above.
 @noindent
 The @code{thin-space}, @code{empty-box}, @code{hex-code}, and
 @acronym{ASCII} string display methods are drawn with the
-@code{glyphless-char} face.
+@code{glyphless-char} face.  On text terminals, a box is emulated by
+square brackets, @samp{[]}.
 
 The char-table has one extra slot, which determines how to display any
 character that cannot be displayed with any available font, or cannot