From: Stefan Monnier Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:49:10 +0000 (-0400) Subject: * doc/lispref/display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~173^2^2~42^2~45^2~387^2~1084 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=23af34b00ca14782ba5d1bbada43cd26962739b4;p=emacs.git * doc/lispref/display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit selective display. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 3007db94975..f2ca420ea90 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-10-29 Stefan Monnier + + * display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit + selective display. + 2013-10-29 Xue Fuqiao * display.texi (Showing Images): Add an index for image-size. diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi index 129fb76f238..898da89c24a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/display.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi @@ -962,11 +962,10 @@ make it invisible again. hiding certain lines on the screen. @cindex explicit selective display - The first variant, explicit selective display, is designed for use -in a Lisp program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the -text. This kind of hiding in some ways resembles the effect of the -@code{invisible} property (@pxref{Invisible Text}), but the two -features are different and do not work the same way. + The first variant, explicit selective display, was designed for use in a Lisp +program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the text. This kind of +hiding is now obsolete; instead you can get the same effect with the +@code{invisible} property (@pxref{Invisible Text}). In the second variant, the choice of lines to hide is made automatically based on indentation. This variant is designed to be a