Improve documentation of 'integer-width'

* etc/NEWS: Minor rewording of the recent addition.

* doc/lispref/numbers.texi (Bitwise Operations): Use @dots{}
for ellipsis.  Improve indexing.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9a741644213..892797b2dde 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -871,11 +871,11 @@ bignums.  However, note that unlike fixnums, bignums will not compare
 equal with 'eq', you must use 'eql' instead.  (Numerical comparison
 with '=' works on both, of course.)
 
-+++
-** New variable 'integer-width'.
-It is a nonnegative integer specifying the maximum number of bits
-allowed in a bignum.  Integer overflow occurs if this limit is
-exceeded.
+Since large bignums consume a lot of memory, Emacs limits the size of
+the largest bignum a Lisp program is allowed to create.  The
+nonnegative value of the new variable 'integer-width' specifies the
+maximum number of bits allowed in a bignum.  Emacs signals an integer
+overflow error if this limit is exceeded.
 
 ** define-minor-mode automatically documents the meaning of ARG