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Eli Zaretskii |
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[Emacs-diffs] master 8e8a068: ; Improve documentation of 'unhandled-file-name-directory' |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:50:16 +0000 |
branch: master
commit 8e8a06803c36fdbd4b90faf8f907a90cc33e1bd0
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
; Improve documentation of 'unhandled-file-name-directory'
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Magic File Names): Better wording for the
last change in the documentation of 'unhandled-file-name-directory'.
---
doc/lispref/files.texi | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi
index 6083433..9a1b2cd 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi
@@ -3081,12 +3081,12 @@ making connections when they don't exist.
@end defun
@defun unhandled-file-name-directory filename
-This function returns the name of a directory that is not magic. It
-turns @var{filename} into a directory name if that is not magic. For a
-magic file name, it invokes the file name handler, which therefore
-decides what value to return. If @var{filename} is not accessible
-from a local process, then the file name handler should indicate it by
-returning @code{nil}.
+This function returns the name of a directory that is not magic. For
+a non-magic @var{filename} it returns the corresponding directory name
+(@pxref{Directory Names}). For a magic @var{filename}, it invokes the
+file name handler, which therefore decides what value to return. If
address@hidden is not accessible from a local process, then the file
+name handler should indicate that by returning @code{nil}.
This is useful for running a subprocess; every subprocess must have a
non-magic directory to serve as its current directory, and this function
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