From 56bfaffd7276218a001f9481f809dc1d44b8910d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:03:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that Lisp files are normally read as multibyte. --- man/cmdargs.texi | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi index 7e8037d6a0c..4409439298c 100644 --- a/man/cmdargs.texi +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi @@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ your own. Enable the Emacs Lisp debugger for errors in the init file. @item --unibyte -@cindex unibyte operation +@cindex unibyte operation, command-line argument Set up to do almost everything with single-byte buffers and strings. All buffers and strings are unibyte unless you (or a Lisp program) -explicitly ask for a multibyte buffer or string. Setting the -environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE} has the same effect. +explicitly ask for a multibyte buffer or string. (Note that when Emacs +loads Lisp files for runnning, it normally does that in multibyte mode, +even if @samp{--unibyte} is specified; see @ref{Enabling Multibyte}.) +Setting the environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE} has the same +effect. @item --multibyte Inhibit the effect of @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE}, so that Emacs @@ -307,7 +310,7 @@ when you specify a relative directory name. The name of the Internet domain that the machine running Emacs is located in. Used by the @sc{gnus} package. @item EMACS_UNIBYTE -@cindex unibyte operation +@cindex unibyte operation, environment variable Defining this environment variable directs Emacs to do almost everything with single-byte buffers and strings. It is equivalent to using the @samp{--unibyte} command-line option on each invocation. @xref{Initial -- 2.39.2