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| -rw-r--r-- | src/coding.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c index f16fa375d0f..01762df59b7 100644 --- a/src/coding.c +++ b/src/coding.c @@ -7128,7 +7128,12 @@ updated by the functions `make-coding-system' and\n\ 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; |