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| author | Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | 2013-08-25 14:25:59 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | 2013-08-25 14:25:59 -0600 |
| commit | 793ea5055aea85ff9227e1bf0c84ab37edba7201 (patch) | |
| tree | c9799eebe2b797a55fcbfcbd3710c9b5aa70051d /doc/lispref | |
| parent | 1ce4c6398ea453a66f6943552b0ec866a690e9b1 (diff) | |
| parent | e687aa335a21662f67d2d73063272504a171ffab (diff) | |
| download | emacs-793ea5055aea85ff9227e1bf0c84ab37edba7201.tar.gz | |
merge from trunk
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/files.texi | 8 |
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 3f9d23a5476..d2e86c25cc1 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-08-20 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * files.texi (Information about Files): Mention file names with + trailing blanks on MS-Windows. (Bug#15130) + 2013-08-18 Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> * positions.texi (Positions): Improve indexing. diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index 77b097ae90a..1f7169522cc 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -776,6 +776,14 @@ return information about actual files or directories, so their arguments must all exist as actual files or directories unless otherwise noted. +@cindex file names, trailing whitespace +@cindex trailing blanks in file names +Be careful with file names that end in blanks: some filesystems +(notably, MS-Windows) will ignore trailing whitespace in file names, +and return information about the file after stripping those blanks +from the name, not about the file whose name you passed to the +functions described in this section. + @menu * Testing Accessibility:: Is a given file readable? Writable? * Kinds of Files:: Is it a directory? A symbolic link? |