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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-03-30 04:38:17 -0400 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2024-03-30 04:38:17 -0400 |
commit | b1e33b0b62115148909de4923b04eac49e1433d4 (patch) | |
tree | 5191054969df5bdb5aa1842f7ce0449a16f80733 /doc | |
parent | 1284aa2655bfc21f973a1b6859138921c47ecc9e (diff) | |
parent | 38faacf353fb4c8efb027019a4619a386edfe62c (diff) | |
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Merge from origin/emacs-29
38faacf353f Improve documentation of <Delete> in user manual
9d3d77f12da Fix documentation of 'other-window-for-scrolling'
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/basic.texi b/doc/emacs/basic.texi index b1b1573729a..a2a934ff243 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/basic.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/basic.texi @@ -406,8 +406,8 @@ Delete the character before point, or the region if it is active (@code{delete-backward-char}). @item @key{Delete} -Delete the character after point, or the region if it is active -(@code{delete-forward-char}). +Delete the character or grapheme cluster after point, or the region if +it is active (@code{delete-forward-char}). @item C-d Delete the character after point (@code{delete-char}). @@ -438,11 +438,18 @@ with the @key{Delete} key; we will discuss @key{Delete} momentarily.) On some text terminals, Emacs may not recognize the @key{DEL} key properly. @xref{DEL Does Not Delete}, if you encounter this problem. +@cindex grapheme cluster, deletion +@cindex delete entire grapheme cluster The @key{Delete} (@code{delete-forward-char}) command deletes in the opposite direction: it deletes the character after point, i.e., the character under the cursor. If point was at the end of a line, this joins the following line onto this one. Like @kbd{@key{DEL}}, it deletes the text in the region if the region is active (@pxref{Mark}). +If the character after point is composed with following characters and +displayed as a single display unit, a so-called @dfn{grapheme cluster} +representing the entire sequence, @key{Delete} deletes the entire +sequence in one go. This is in contrast to @key{DEL} which always +deletes a single character, even if the character is composed. @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) deletes the character after point, similar to @key{Delete}, but regardless of whether the region is |