[Emacs-diffs] trunk r114847: * doc/lispref/display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit

[Stefan Monnier]

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revno: 114847
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Tue 2013-10-29 10:49:10 -0400
message:
  * doc/lispref/display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit
  selective display.
modified:
  doc/lispref/ChangeLog          changelog-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-6155
  doc/lispref/display.texi       
display.texi-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-6172

=== modified file 'doc/lispref/ChangeLog'
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog     2013-10-29 14:36:01 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog     2013-10-29 14:49:10 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-10-29  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
+
+       * display.texi (Selective Display): Discourage the use of explicit
+       selective display.
+
 2013-10-29  Xue Fuqiao  <address@hidden>
 
        * display.texi (Showing Images): Add an index for image-size.

=== modified file 'doc/lispref/display.texi'
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi  2013-10-29 14:36:01 +0000
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi  2013-10-29 14:49:10 +0000
@@ -962,11 +962,10 @@
 hiding certain lines on the screen.
 
 @cindex explicit selective display
-  The first variant, explicit selective display, is designed for use
-in a Lisp program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the
-text.  This kind of hiding in some ways resembles the effect of the
address@hidden property (@pxref{Invisible Text}), but the two
-features are different and do not work the same way.
+  The first variant, explicit selective display, was designed for use in a Lisp
+program: it controls which lines are hidden by altering the text.  This kind of
+hiding is now obsolete; instead you can get the same effect with the
address@hidden property (@pxref{Invisible Text}).
 
   In the second variant, the choice of lines to hide is made
 automatically based on indentation.  This variant is designed to be a