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authorKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1995-12-21 17:50:40 +0000
committerKarl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>1995-12-21 17:50:40 +0000
commit72c2a4c13255a9548fceb7ad808b843062a91f22 (patch)
treeee40c8661cbcb22b980130ad42466ff8589c4887 /lisp/international
parent99ae9e9fda2e9f5d67dd12e835e91186bccc47fb (diff)
downloademacs-72c2a4c13255a9548fceb7ad808b843062a91f22.tar.gz
Many doc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/international')
-rw-r--r--lisp/international/iso-acc.el19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/international/iso-acc.el b/lisp/international/iso-acc.el
index 8e877a1e349..fc721a8c33b 100644
--- a/lisp/international/iso-acc.el
+++ b/lisp/international/iso-acc.el
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
;; minor mode, or disable it.
;; If you want only some of these characters to serve as accents,
-;; set iso-accents-enable to the list of characters that should be special.
+;; add a language to iso-languages which specifies the accent characters
+;; that you want, then select the language with iso-accents-customize.
;;; Code:
@@ -114,10 +115,11 @@ Each element of the list is of the form (LANGUAGE ENABLE LIST).
LANGUAGE is a string naming the language.
ENABLE is a list of characters that will be used as accent prefixes.
-It will be the value of the iso-accents-enable variable.
+It will be the value of the `iso-accents-enable' variable
+if you select this language.
LIST is a list of accent translations. It will be the value of the
-iso-accents-list variable.")
+`iso-accents-list' variable.")
(defvar iso-language nil
"Language for which ISO Accents mode is currently customized.
@@ -178,8 +180,10 @@ See the function `iso-accents-mode'.")
(defvar iso-accents-enable nil
"*List of accent keys that become prefixes in ISO Accents mode.
The default is (?' ?` ?^ ?\" ?~ ?/), which contains all the supported
-accent keys. For certain languages, you might want to remove some of
-those characters that are not actually used.")
+accent keys. For certain languages, it is better to use a subset of
+the accent characters. Do not set this variable directly;
+instead, define a language in `iso-languages' and then specify that
+language with `iso-accents-customize'.")
;; It is a matter of taste if you want the minor mode indicated
;; in the mode line...
@@ -197,9 +201,8 @@ When Iso-accents mode is enabled, accent character keys
\(`, ', \", ^, / and ~) do not self-insert; instead, they modify the following
letter key so that it inserts an ISO accented letter.
-The variable `iso-accents-enable' specifies the list of characters to
-enable as accents. If you don't need all of them, remove the ones you
-don't need from that list.
+You can customize ISO Accents mode to a particular language
+with the command `iso-accents-customize'.
Special combinations: ~c gives a c with cedilla,
~d gives an Icelandic eth (d with dash).