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(Text Display): Mention non-breaking spaces.

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Richard M. Stallman
2005-03-26 01:46:55 +00:00
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@@ -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