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diff --git a/man/basic.texi b/man/basic.texi index 52f7dfd4ca3..f7eb39d31de 100644 --- a/man/basic.texi +++ b/man/basic.texi @@ -605,9 +605,10 @@ current page. @kindex C-x = @findex what-cursor-position - The command @kbd{C-x =} (@code{what-cursor-position}) can be used to find out -the column that the cursor is in, and other miscellaneous information about -point. It displays a line in the echo area that looks like this: + The command @kbd{C-x =} (@code{what-cursor-position}) shows what +column the cursor is in, and other miscellaneous information about +point and the character after it. It displays a line in the echo area +that looks like this: @smallexample Char: c (0143, 99, 0x63) point=21044 of 26883(78%) column 53 @@ -665,8 +666,9 @@ identify the character within that character set; ASCII characters are identified as belonging to the @code{ascii} character set. It also shows the character's syntax, categories, and encodings both internally in the buffer and externally if you save the file. It also -shows the character's text properties, if any, and the font used to -display it. +shows the character's text properties (@pxref{Text Properties,,, +elisp, the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}), and any overlays containing it +(@pxref{Overlays,,, elisp, the same manual}). Here's an example showing the Latin-1 character A with grave accent, in a buffer whose coding system is @code{iso-2022-7bit}, whose @@ -686,7 +688,7 @@ displays the character as @samp{@`A}), and which has font-lock-mode terminal code: C0 Text properties - face: font-lock-variable-name-face + font-lock-face: font-lock-variable-name-face fontified: t @end smallexample |