From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 06:40:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (syms_of_coding): Docstring modified.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.99~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f4b4b44cf08915472cee110bfbccb0cb65d7d09;p=emacs.git

(syms_of_coding): Docstring modified.
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diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c
index f16fa375d0f..01762df59b7 100644
--- a/src/coding.c
+++ b/src/coding.c
@@ -7128,7 +7128,12 @@ updated by the functions `make-coding-system' and\n\
   Vcoding_system_alist = Qnil;
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("coding-category-list", &Vcoding_category_list,
-    "List of coding-categories (symbols) ordered by priority.");
+    "List of coding-categories (symbols) ordered by priority.\n\
+\n\
+On detecting a coding system, Emacs tries code detection algorithms\n\
+associated with each coding-category one by one in this order.  When\n\
+one algorithm agrees with a byte sequence of source text, the coding\n\
+system bound to the corresponding coding-category is selected.");
   {
     int i;