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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-09-02 12:57:30 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2017-09-02 12:57:30 +0300
commitf529fc1570e4157c1ecbf4aa1ab5de60efdd5ca7 (patch)
tree338a5d95188e22848c922ece0d82177dd70b688d /src/fileio.c
parentc89f3ff3dc6c744c71808c40dc52c61979c57a4b (diff)
downloademacs-f529fc1570e4157c1ecbf4aa1ab5de60efdd5ca7.tar.gz
* src/fileio.c (Fexpand_file_name): Doc fix. (Bug#27982)
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diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
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@@ -755,7 +755,9 @@ For technical reasons, this function can return correct but
non-intuitive results for the root directory; for instance,
\(expand-file-name ".." "/") returns "/..". For this reason, use
\(directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname)) to traverse a
-filesystem tree, not (expand-file-name ".." dirname). */)
+filesystem tree, not (expand-file-name ".." dirname). Note: make
+sure DIRNAME in this example doesn't end in a slash, unless it's
+the root directory. */)
(Lisp_Object name, Lisp_Object default_directory)
{
/* These point to SDATA and need to be careful with string-relocation