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(syms_of_coding): Docstring modified.
author Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
date Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:40:18 +0000
parents 27b5c760df31
children 0a75ccbe42b2
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--- a/src/coding.c	Mon Mar 05 06:39:41 2001 +0000
+++ b/src/coding.c	Mon Mar 05 06:40:18 2001 +0000
@@ -7128,7 +7128,12 @@
   Vcoding_system_alist = Qnil;
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("coding-category-list", &Vcoding_category_list,
-    "List of coding-categories (symbols) ordered by priority.");
+    "List of coding-categories (symbols) ordered by priority.\n\
+\n\
+On detecting a coding system, Emacs tries code detection algorithms\n\
+associated with each coding-category one by one in this order.  When\n\
+one algorithm agrees with a byte sequence of source text, the coding\n\
+system bound to the corresponding coding-category is selected.");
   {
     int i;