[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/files.texi,v

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       07/04/07 01:54:24

Index: files.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lispref/files.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.103
retrieving revision 1.104
diff -u -b -r1.103 -r1.104
--- files.texi  31 Mar 2007 17:27:34 -0000      1.103
+++ files.texi  7 Apr 2007 01:54:24 -0000       1.104
@@ -740,7 +740,6 @@
 
 @node Information about Files
 @section Information about Files
address@hidden information about files
 @cindex file, information about
 
   The functions described in this section all operate on strings that
@@ -1178,6 +1177,7 @@
 
 @item
 The time of last modification as a list of two integers (as above).
address@hidden modification time of file
 
 @item
 The time of last status change as a list of two integers (as above).
@@ -1268,13 +1268,13 @@
 
 @node Locating Files
 @subsection How to Locate Files in Standard Places
address@hidden locate files
address@hidden find files
address@hidden locate file in path
address@hidden find file in path
 
   This section explains how to search for a file in a list of
-directories.  One example is when you need to look for a program's
-executable file, e.g., to find out whether a given program is
-installed on the user's system.  Another example is the search for
+directories (a @dfn{path}).  One example is when you need to look for
+a program's executable file, e.g., to find out whether a given program
+is installed on the user's system.  Another example is the search for
 Lisp libraries (@pxref{Library Search}).  Such searches generally need
 to try various possible file name extensions, in addition to various
 possible directories.  Emacs provides a function for such a
@@ -1317,7 +1317,6 @@
 a list of one or more of these symbols.
 @end defun
 
address@hidden find executable program
 @defun executable-find program
 This function searches for the executable file of the named
 @var{program} and returns the full absolute name of the executable,
@@ -1329,7 +1328,7 @@
 
 @node Changing Files
 @section Changing File Names and Attributes
address@hidden renaming files
address@hidden @cindex renaming files  Duplicates rename-file
 @cindex copying files
 @cindex deleting files
 @cindex linking files