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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-02-23 17:45:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2023-02-23 17:45:52 +0200 |
| commit | a0b273ef300adabac0cb656fcc3657ebaf6ed528 (patch) | |
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| parent | 5c2be6a2632052b39b49899d1b19df2942ac6453 (diff) | |
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; Clarify documentation of 'file-modes-number-to-symbolic'
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Changing Files):
* lisp/files.el (file-modes-number-to-symbolic): Clarify the
confusion with "symbolic" forms of file modes. (Bug#61709)
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index 5062b1697b5..f8781d4895b 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -1985,7 +1985,11 @@ all. @defun file-modes-number-to-symbolic modes This function converts a numeric file mode specification in -@var{modes} into the equivalent symbolic form. +@var{modes} into the equivalent string form. The string which this +function returns is in the same format produced by the shell command +@kbd{ls -l} and by @code{file-attributes}, @emph{not} the symbolic +form accepted by @code{file-modes-symbolic-to-number} and the +@command{chmod} shell command. @end defun @defun set-file-times filename &optional time flag |