From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:30:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Translation of Characters): Search cmds use
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~4669
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa27fb286e3ba6902ffc8dfb01246d7d18882bb5;p=emacs.git

(Translation of Characters): Search cmds use
translation-table-for-input.  Automatically made local.
---

diff --git a/lispref/nonascii.texi b/lispref/nonascii.texi
index 73632e36514..6e41a462934 100644
--- a/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -578,12 +578,14 @@ coding systems that don't specify any other translation table.
 
 @defvar translation-table-for-input
 Self-inserting characters are translated through this translation
-table before they are inserted.  This variable automatically becomes
-buffer-local when set.
+table before they are inserted.  Search commands also translate their
+input through this table, so they can compare more reliably with
+what's in the buffer.
 
 @code{set-buffer-file-coding-system} sets this variable so that your
 keyboard input gets translated into the character sets that the buffer
-is likely to contain.
+is likely to contain.  This variable automatically becomes
+buffer-local when set.
 @end defvar
 
 @node Coding Systems