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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sciteco.1.in | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sciteco.7.template | 5 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sciteco.1.in b/doc/sciteco.1.in index 73303a1..b03f62d 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.1.in +++ b/doc/sciteco.1.in @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Scintilla-based \fBT\fPext \fBE\fPditor and \fBCO\fPrrector .OP "-e|--eval" macro .OP "-m|--mung" .OP "--no-profile" +.OP "-8|--8bit" .RI [ "UI option .\|.\|." ] .OP "--" .RI [ script ] @@ -191,6 +192,14 @@ munging an empty file. This is useful to fix up a broken profile script. This option has no effect when a file is explicitly munged with .BR \-\-mung . +.IP "\fB-8\fR, \fB--8bit\fR" +.SCITECO_TOPIC "-8" "--8-bit" +Use raw single-byte ANSI encoding by default and disable automatic EOL conversion, +which optimizes \*(ST for 8-bit cleanliness. +It is equivalent to executing \(lq16,4ED\(rq, but since it is executed +very early at startup, all Q-Registers and the unnamed buffer will +already be in ANSI encoding. +This option is also useful when munging the profile macro. .IP "\fIUI options .\|.\|.\fP" Some graphical user interfaces, notably GTK+, provide additional command line options. diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index f344820..a5b7f4a 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -1086,7 +1086,10 @@ Currently, \*(ST supports UTF-8 and single-byte ANSI encodings, that can also be used for editing raw binary files. \# You can configure other single-byte code pages with EE, \# but there isn't yet any way to insert characters. -UTF-8 is the default codepage for new buffers and Q-Registers. +UTF-8 is the default codepage for new buffers and Q-Registers +unless the 2nd \fBED\fP flag bit is set. +You can also specify \fB--8bit\fP to optimize \*(ST for +8-bit cleanliness. While navigation in documents with single-byte encodings takes place in constant time, \*(ST uses heuristics in UTF-8 documents for translating between byte and character |