This is the doc string: "Face for characters displayed as ^-sequences or -sequences."
First, is the last term correct: "-sequences"? Is something missing there? More generally, this is not comprehensible, by itself, especially since there is no explanation in the Elisp manual of what this face is or is for. The face name is hardly helpful in this regard. And there is no explanation of what a "^-sequence" or a "-sequence" is. Are people supposed to pick this up in the public schools or on TV or something ;-)? This is like saying "colored petri net", and expecting people to understand what is meant. A simple illustration would help: For example, when a Control-l character is displayed in a buffer (after insertion using `C-q C-l', for instance), this face is used to display it. The Elisp manual should explain a bit more, mentioning that some control characters (e.g. ^L) are used in displayed buffers, and you can use this face to make them stand out more or less. For instance, ^L is sometimes used to separate sections of code or documentation into "pages" for printing and searching. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2 X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re port-emacs-bug> Recent messages: (C:\Emacs-22-2006-07-19-Fran\bin\emacs.exe -q --no-site-file --debug-init C:\drews-lisp-20) Loading encoded-kb...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading dired... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading dired...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
