(Text Display): Mention non-breaking spaces.

[gnu-emacs] / man / display.texi

diff --git a/man/display.texi b/man/display.texi
index e96ce21f7486c412aa7467102cc25bbdfbcab737..55b3b97630879b234986b70e5d18a73d429a3ba6 100644 (file)
--- a/man/display.texi
+++ b/man/display.texi
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ delays when a file is visited, Emacs fontifies only the visible
 portion of a buffer.  As you scroll through the buffer, each portion
 that becomes visible is fontified as soon as it is displayed.  The
 parts of the buffer that are not displayed are fontified
-``stealthily'', in the background, i.e.@: when Emacs is idle.  You can
+``stealthily,'' in the background, i.e.@: when Emacs is idle.  You can
 control this background fontification, also called @dfn{Just-In-Time}
 (or @dfn{JIT}) Lock, by customizing variables in the customization
 group @samp{jit-lock}.  @xref{Specific Customization}.
@@ -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