From b5cced4b79c573e41b230c46441b3d7a8e25b6c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:46:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Text Display): Mention non-breaking spaces. --- man/display.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/display.texi b/man/display.texi index ff939e00cdb..55b3b976308 100644 --- a/man/display.texi +++ b/man/display.texi @@ -913,6 +913,15 @@ they are displayed using their graphics (assuming your terminal supports them), otherwise as escape sequences. @xref{Single-Byte Character Support}. +@vindex show-nonbreak-escape + Some character sets define ``non-breaking'' versions of the space +and hyphen characters, which are used where a line should not be +broken. Emacs displays these with an escape character in order to +distinguish them from ordinary spaces and hyphens. For example, a +non-breaking space is displayed as @samp{\ }. You can turn off this +behavior by setting the variable @code{show-nonbreak-escape} to +@code{nil}. + @node Cursor Display @section Displaying the Cursor -- 2.39.2