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Re: colon in the mode-line
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: colon in the mode-line |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:01:17 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:55:29 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
>
> >From man/mule.texi:
>
> The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled
> in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most
> often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line.
> When multibyte characters are not enabled, nothing precedes the colon
> except a single dash.
>
> Which colon?
>From man/screen.texi:
The colon after @var{cs} changes to another string in some cases.
Emacs uses newline characters to separate lines in the buffer. Some
files use different conventions for separating lines: either
carriage-return linefeed (the MS-DOS convention) or just
carriage-return (the Macintosh convention). If the buffer's file uses
carriage-return linefeed, the colon changes to either a backslash
(@samp{\}) or @samp{(DOS)}, depending on the operating system. If the
file uses just carriage-return, the colon indicator changes to either
a forward slash (@samp{/}) or @samp{(Mac)}. On some systems, Emacs
displays @samp{(Unix)} instead of the colon for files that use newline
as the line separator.