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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/files.el | 17 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index f6c90fc4d68..819a83c8876 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-06-12 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * files.el (make-directory): Doc fix (bug#6396). + 2010-06-12 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> * net/tramp.el (tramp-remote-process-environment): Protect version diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 8d30659732f..d30531b17e5 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -4635,16 +4635,17 @@ or multiple mail buffers, etc." (force-mode-line-update)))) (defun make-directory (dir &optional parents) - "Create the directory DIR and any nonexistent parent dirs. -If DIR already exists as a directory, signal an error, unless PARENTS is set. + "Create the directory DIR and optionally any nonexistent parent dirs. +If DIR already exists as a directory, signal an error, unless +PARENTS is non-nil. -Interactively, the default choice of directory to create -is the current default directory for file names. -That is useful when you have visited a file in a nonexistent directory. +Interactively, the default choice of directory to create is the +current buffer's default directory. That is useful when you have +visited a file in a nonexistent directory. -Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS says whether -to create parent directories if they don't exist. Interactively, -this happens by default." +Noninteractively, the second (optional) argument PARENTS, if +non-nil, says whether to create parent directories that don't +exist. Interactively, this happens by default." (interactive (list (read-file-name "Make directory: " default-directory default-directory nil nil) |