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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-05-25 13:22:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-05-25 13:22:45 +0300 |
| commit | 1bf658366220ce1019721f24d96ef8f82bd18cff (patch) | |
| tree | 696a41c4425f3636ced680f5989706541d91c7e9 | |
| parent | 3647645e94856344696768bef590b49a24c7ac52 (diff) | |
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Improve documentation of 'no-special-glyphs' frame parameter
* doc/lispref/frames.texi (Layout Parameters): Document
limitations of support for 'no-special-glyphs' frame parameter.
(Bug#71163)
* doc/lispref/display.texi (Truncation): Update for when
'fringe-mode' is off.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/display.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/frames.texi | 14 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi index 869bf15a40a..ef44c8d80f5 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/display.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ boundary. @xref{Filling}. On a graphical display, tiny arrow images in the window fringes indicate truncated and continued lines (@pxref{Fringes}). On a text -terminal, a @samp{$} in the rightmost column of the window indicates +terminal, and on a graphical display when @code{fringe-mode} was +turned off, a @samp{$} in the rightmost column of the window indicates truncation; a @samp{\} on the rightmost column indicates a line that wraps. (The display table can specify alternate characters to use for this; @pxref{Display Tables}). diff --git a/doc/lispref/frames.texi b/doc/lispref/frames.texi index edc080153d6..fe5745a85ab 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/frames.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/frames.texi @@ -1928,10 +1928,16 @@ integer). @xref{Line Height}, for more information. @vindex no-special-glyphs@r{, a frame parameter} @item no-special-glyphs If this is non-@code{nil}, it suppresses the display of any truncation -and continuation glyphs (@pxref{Truncation}) for all buffers displayed -by this frame. This is useful to eliminate such glyphs when fitting a -frame to its buffer via @code{fit-frame-to-buffer} (@pxref{Resizing -Windows}). +(@pxref{Truncation}) and continuation glyphs for all the buffers +displayed by this frame. This is useful to eliminate such glyphs when +fitting a frame to its buffer via @code{fit-frame-to-buffer} +(@pxref{Resizing Windows}). This frame parameter has effect only for +GUI frames shown on graphical displays, and only if the fringes are +disabled. This parameter is intended as a purely-presentation +feature, and in particular should not be used for frames where the +user can interactively insert text, or more generally where the cursor +is shown. A notable example of frames where this is used is tooltip +frames (@pxref{Tooltips}). @end table |