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index f45f87335f..c2e48263c2 100644
--- a/man/basic.texi
+++ b/man/basic.texi
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 @c This is part of the Emacs manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 1985,86,87,93,94,95,97,2000,2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001,
+@c   2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.
 @node Basic, Minibuffer, Exiting, Top
 @chapter Basic Editing Commands
@@ -240,8 +241,10 @@ Position 1 is the beginning of the buffer.
 @item M-g M-g
 @itemx M-g g
 @itemx M-x goto-line
-Read a number @var{n} and move point to line number @var{n}.  Line 1
-is the beginning of the buffer.
+Read a number @var{n} and move point to the beginning of line number
+@var{n}.  Line 1 is the beginning of the buffer.  If point is on or
+just after a number, then that is the default for @var{n}, if you just
+press @key{RET} with an empty minibuffer.
 @item C-x C-n
 @findex set-goal-column
 @kindex C-x C-n
@@ -623,20 +626,23 @@ 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
+Char: c (99, #o143, #x63) point=28062 of 36168 (78%) column=53
 @end smallexample
 
-@noindent
-(In fact, this is the output produced when point is before the
-@samp{column} in the example.)
-
   The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows
 point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in
-octal, decimal and hex.  For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are
-followed by @samp{ext} and the character's representation, in hex, in
+decimal, octal and hex.  For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are
+followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in
 the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character
 safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}).  If the
-character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{ext ...}.
+character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{file ...}.
+
+  However, if the character displayed is in the range 0200 through
+0377 octal, it may actually stand for an invalid UTF-8 byte read from
+a file.  In Emacs, that byte is represented as a sequence of 8-bit
+characters, but all of them together display as the original invalid
+byte, in octal code.  In this case, @kbd{C-x =} shows @samp{part of
+display ...} instead of @samp{file}.
 
   @samp{point=} is followed by the position of point expressed as a character
 count.  The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later
@@ -644,7 +650,7 @@ as 2, and so on.  The next, larger, number is the total number of characters
 in the buffer.  Afterward in parentheses comes the position expressed as a
 percentage of the total size.
 
-  @samp{column} is followed by the horizontal position of point, in
+  @samp{column=} is followed by the horizontal position of point, in
 columns from the left edge of the window.
 
   If the buffer has been narrowed, making some of the text at the
@@ -653,7 +659,7 @@ additional text describing the currently accessible range.  For example, it
 might display this:
 
 @smallexample
-Char: C (0103, 67, 0x43)  point=252 of 889(28%) <231 - 599>  column 0
+Char: C (67, #o103, #x43) point=252 of 889 (28%) <231-599> column=0
 @end smallexample
 
 @noindent
@@ -666,7 +672,7 @@ part), the @w{@kbd{C-x =}} output does not describe a character after
 point.  The output might look like this:
 
 @smallexample
-point=26957 of 26956(100%)  column 0
+point=36169 of 36168 (EOB) column=0
 @end smallexample
 
 @cindex character set of character at point
@@ -710,16 +716,16 @@ displays the character as @samp{@`A}), and which has font-lock-mode
 (@pxref{Font Lock}) enabled:
 
 @smallexample
-  character: @`A (04300, 2240, 0x8c0, U+00C0)
+  character: @`A (2240, #o4300, #x8c0, U+00C0)
     charset: latin-iso8859-1
              (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1@dots{}
- code point: 64
+ code point: #x40
      syntax: w 	which means: word
    category: l:Latin
-   to input: type "`A"
-buffer code: 0x81 0xC0
-  file code: ESC 2C 41 40 (encoded by coding system iso-2022-7bit)
-    display: terminal code 0xC0
+   to input: type "`A" with latin-1-prefix
+buffer code: #x81 #xC0
+  file code: #xC0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1)
+    display: terminal code #xC0
 
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