From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:31:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (printify-region): Doc fix.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.1~2250
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c44b2ad7aa1398bd1e9c0632b9bd34043e65295;p=emacs.git

(printify-region): Doc fix.
---

diff --git a/lisp/lpr.el b/lisp/lpr.el
index e219e4bfa2a..a9054acd1c4 100644
--- a/lisp/lpr.el
+++ b/lisp/lpr.el
@@ -187,9 +187,9 @@ The variable `lpr-page-header-program' specifies the program to use."
       (cons (point-min) (point-max)))))
 
 (defun printify-region (begin end)
-  "Turn nonprinting characters (other than TAB, LF, SPC, RET, and FF)
-in the current buffer into printable representations as control or
-hexadecimal escapes."
+  "Replace nonprinting characters in region with printable representations.
+The printable representations use ^ (for ASCII control characters) or hex.
+The characters tab, linefeed, space, return and formfeed are not affected."
   (interactive "r")
   (save-excursion
     (goto-char begin)