Doc updates for several Emacs 24.4 changes.

* doc/lispref/commands.texi (Event Input Misc): Document new arg to
input-pending-p.

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Font Selection): Tweak example.

* doc/lispref/keymaps.texi (Active Keymaps): Re-organize the text.
(Searching Keymaps): Rewrite the pseudo-code for 24.4 changes.
(Controlling Active Maps): Note that set-transient-map uses
overriding-terminal-local-map.

* doc/lispref/nonascii.texi (Specifying Coding Systems): Don't refer to
emacs-mule-dos.
(Lisp and Coding Systems): Describe emacs-mule return value in
modern terms.

* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Coding Conventions): Tweak the coding system tip;
Emacs now uses utf-8 by default for Emacs Lisp source files.

* doc/emacs/glossary.texi (Glossary): Define MULE in modern terms.

* src/keyboard.c (Voverriding_terminal_local_map):
(Voverriding_local_map): Doc fix.

* src/keymap.c (Vemulation_mode_map_alists): Doc fix.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi
index c8b4b40416f..d6c8477b1c6 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi
@@ -953,9 +953,15 @@ another.  The usual way to move text is by killing (q.v.@:) it and then
 yanking (q.v.@:) it.  @xref{Killing}.
 
 @item MULE
-MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual
-non-@acronym{ASCII} text using multibyte characters (q.v.).
-@xref{International}.
+@cindex MULE
+Prior to Emacs 23, @acronym{MULE} was the name of a software package
+which provided a @dfn{MULtilingual Enhancement} to Emacs, by adding
+support for multiple character sets (q.v.).  @acronym{MULE} was later
+integrated into Emacs, and much of it was replaced when Emacs gained
+internal Unicode support in version 23.
+
+Some parts of Emacs that deal with character set support still use the
+@acronym{MULE} name.  @xref{International}.
 
 @item Multibyte Character
 A multibyte character is a character that takes up several bytes in a