From 187d8f814852c07553eb5e6425a21499a5d06a61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:22:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Enabling Multibyte): Rephrase the confusing reference to a colon in the mode line. --- man/mule.texi | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi index e9a30301ed8..3e7a35d246a 100644 --- a/man/mule.texi +++ b/man/mule.texi @@ -212,11 +212,13 @@ always load any particular Lisp file in the same way. However, you can load a Lisp file as unibyte, on any one occasion, by typing @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c raw-text @key{RET}} immediately before loading it. - The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled -in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most -often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line. -When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon -except a single dash. + The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is +enabled in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more +characters (most often two dashes) near the beginning of the mode +line, before the indication of the visited file's end-of-line +convention (colon, backslash, etc.). When multibyte characters +are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon except a single dash. +@xref{Mode Line}, for more details about this. @node Language Environments @section Language Environments -- 2.39.2