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authorStephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>2019-07-30 11:02:03 -0700
committerStephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>2019-07-30 11:02:03 -0700
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Improve doc strings for some -search-path variables
* lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (emacs-lisp-compilation-search-path): Improve doc string. * lisp/progmodes/compile.el (compilation-search-path): Improve doc string. * lisp/progmodes/grep.el (grep-search-path): Improve doc string.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp')
-rw-r--r--lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
index 431525431a4..125344b779b 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el
@@ -1037,9 +1037,10 @@ If STR is something like \"Buffer foo.el\", return #<buffer foo.el>
we go into emacs-lisp-compilation-mode.")
(defcustom emacs-lisp-compilation-search-path '(nil)
- "Search path for byte-compile error messages.
-Elements should be directory names, not file names of directories.
-The value nil as an element means to try the default directory."
+ "Directories to search for files named in byte-compile error messages.
+Value should be a list of directory names, not file names of
+directories. The value nil as an element means the byte-compile
+message buffer `default-directory'."
:version "27.1"
:type '(repeat (choice (const :tag "Default" nil)
(string :tag "Directory"))))