; Fix documentation of previous change.

* lisp/display-fill-column-indicator.el
(display-fill-column-indicator-warning)
(display-fill-column-indicator-warning-face): Doc fixes.

* etc/NEWS: Announce 'display-fill-column-indicator-warning'.
(Bug#76494).

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 6cfed2932d4..ca9669b66e9 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1446,6 +1446,13 @@ commands.  When nil, clicking on an inactive Emacs frame will only
 activate it.  When t (the default), the click will both activate the
 frame and be interpreted as a command.
 
+---
+*** New user option 'display-fill-column-indicator-warning'.
+Customize it to a non-nil value to have the fill-column indicators
+change their face if the current line exceeds the 'fill-column'.  The
+new face 'display-fill-column-indicator-warning-face' is used to
+highlight the fill-column indicators.  By default this is disabled.
+
 
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 31.1
 
diff --git a/lisp/display-fill-column-indicator.el b/lisp/display-fill-column-indicator.el
index e2395bb1f01..dbd067f5f3d 100644
--- a/lisp/display-fill-column-indicator.el
+++ b/lisp/display-fill-column-indicator.el
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   :link '(info-link "(emacs)Displaying Boundaries"))
 
 (defcustom display-fill-column-indicator-warning nil
-  "Highlight fill-column-indicator when current column is too long.
+  "Highlight fill-column-indicator when current line is too long.
 Non-nil means highlight fill-column-indicator when current column exceeds
 `display-fill-column-indicator-column'."
   :type 'boolean
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Non-nil means highlight fill-column-indicator when current column exceeds
 
 (defface display-fill-column-indicator-warning-face
   '((t :inherit error :stipple nil))
-  "Face used to highlight `display-fill-column-indicator' when column is too long."
+  "Face used to highlight `display-fill-column-indicator' when lines are too long."
   :version "31.1")
 
 (defun fill-indicator--set-warning ()