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diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index acb6b8c8039..66781ad2bea 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -1590,6 +1590,13 @@ also creates a new item for the current file. For many languages, it can even guess the name of the function or other object that was changed. +@c Not worth it. +@c @vindex change-log-directory-files +To find the change log file, Emacs searches up the directory tree from +the file you are editing. By default, it stops if it finds a +directory that seems to be the root of a version-control repository. +To change this, customize @code{change-log-directory-files}. + @vindex add-log-keep-changes-together When the variable @code{add-log-keep-changes-together} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{C-x 4 a} adds to any existing item for the file @@ -2545,10 +2552,10 @@ directory as the default. @vindex tags-file-name Emacs does not actually read in the tags table contents until you try to use them; all @code{visit-tags-table} does is store the file -name in the variable @code{tags-file-name}, and setting the variable -yourself is just as good. The variable's initial value is @code{nil}; -that value tells all the commands for working with tags tables that -they must ask for a tags table file name to use. +name in the variable @code{tags-file-name}, and not much more. The +variable's initial value is @code{nil}; that value tells all the +commands for working with tags tables that they must ask for a tags +table file name to use. Using @code{visit-tags-table} when a tags table is already loaded gives you a choice: you can add the new tags table to the current list |