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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ for that purpose. If the large key not far above the @key{RET} or
@key{ENTER} key doesn't delete backwards, you need to do this.
@xref{DEL Does Not Delete}, for an explanation of how.
- Most PC keyboards have both a @key{BACKSPACE} key a short ways above
+ Most PC keyboards have both a @key{BACKSPACE} key not far above
@key{RET} or @key{ENTER}, and a @key{DELETE} key elsewhere. On these
keyboards, Emacs supports when possible the usual convention that the
@key{BACKSPACE} key deletes backwards (it is @key{DEL}), while the
@@ -626,16 +626,12 @@ point and the character after it. It displays a line in the echo area
that looks like this:
@smallexample
-Char: c (0143, 99, 0x63) point=21044 of 26883(78%) column 53
+Char: c (99, #o143, #x63) point=28062 of 36168 (78%) column=53
@end smallexample
-@noindent
-(In fact, this is the output produced when point is before the
-@samp{column} in the example.)
-
The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows
point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in
-octal, decimal and hex. For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are
+decimal, octal and hex. For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are
followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in
the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character
safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}). If the
@@ -654,7 +650,7 @@ as 2, and so on. The next, larger, number is the total number of characters
in the buffer. Afterward in parentheses comes the position expressed as a
percentage of the total size.
- @samp{column} is followed by the horizontal position of point, in
+ @samp{column=} is followed by the horizontal position of point, in
columns from the left edge of the window.
If the buffer has been narrowed, making some of the text at the
@@ -663,7 +659,7 @@ additional text describing the currently accessible range. For example, it
might display this:
@smallexample
-Char: C (0103, 67, 0x43) point=252 of 889(28%) <231 - 599> column 0
+Char: C (67, #o103, #x43) point=252 of 889 (28%) <231-599> column=0
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -676,7 +672,7 @@ part), the @w{@kbd{C-x =}} output does not describe a character after
point. The output might look like this:
@smallexample
-point=26957 of 26956(100%) column 0
+point=36169 of 36168 (EOB) column=0
@end smallexample
@cindex character set of character at point
@@ -720,16 +716,16 @@ displays the character as @samp{@`A}), and which has font-lock-mode
(@pxref{Font Lock}) enabled:
@smallexample
- character: @`A (04300, 2240, 0x8c0, U+00C0)
+ character: @`A (2240, #o4300, #x8c0, U+00C0)
charset: latin-iso8859-1
(Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1@dots{}
- code point: 64
+ code point: #x40
syntax: w which means: word
category: l:Latin
- to input: type "`A"
-buffer code: 0x81 0xC0
- file code: ESC 2C 41 40 (encoded by coding system iso-2022-7bit)
- display: terminal code 0xC0
+ to input: type "`A" with latin-1-prefix
+buffer code: #x81 #xC0
+ file code: #xC0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1)
+ display: terminal code #xC0
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