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Eli Zaretskii |
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[Emacs-diffs] master bca2bc4: Improve documentation of functions that change files |
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Mon, 19 Oct 2015 05:32:45 +0000 |
branch: master
commit bca2bc4fe973d3b40b58805c4b426757f5c85dc8
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Improve documentation of functions that change files
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Changing Files): Document that these
functions signal an error on failure.
---
doc/lispref/files.texi | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi
index db2ecc0..4d2761e 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi
@@ -1481,7 +1481,10 @@ in @code{exec-path}, and tries all the file-name
extensions in
@cindex setting modes of files
The functions in this section rename, copy, delete, link, and set
-the modes (permissions) of files.
+the modes (permissions) of files. They all signal a @code{file-error}
+error if they fail to perform their function, reporting the
+system-dependent error message that describes the reason for the
+failure.
In the functions that have an argument @var{newname}, if a file by the
name of @var{newname} already exists, the actions taken depend on the
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