From 1239851cdd4cf7a75e98a850b1420d2cc7440455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:06:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (woman-preserve-ascii): Default value changed to t and doc string revised. --- lisp/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ lisp/woman.el | 13 +++++++++---- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index 93035f666b..517f2d756c 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-03-12 Francis J. Wright + + * woman.el (woman-preserve-ascii): Default value changed to t and + doc string revised. + 2004-03-12 Richard M. Stallman * pcvs.el (cvs-mode-add-change-log-entry-other-window): diff --git a/lisp/woman.el b/lisp/woman.el index cce6d4ca5e..ed04ae4c83 100644 --- a/lisp/woman.el +++ b/lisp/woman.el @@ -832,10 +832,15 @@ the buffer, which may aid debugging." :type 'boolean :group 'woman-formatting) -(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii nil - "*If non-nil then preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer. -Otherwise, non-ASCII characters (that display as ASCII) may remain. -This is irrelevant unless the buffer is to be saved to a file." +(defcustom woman-preserve-ascii t + "*If non-nil, preserve ASCII characters in the WoMan buffer. +Otherwise, to save time, some backslashes and spaces may be +represented differently (as the values of the variables +`woman-escaped-escape-char' and `woman-unpadded-space-char' +respectively) so that the buffer content is strictly wrong even though +it should display correctly. This should be irrelevant unless the +buffer text is searched, copied or saved to a file." + ;; This option should probably be removed! :type 'boolean :group 'woman-formatting) -- 2.20.1