From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 18318@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18318: 24.4.50; doc of `file-readable-p'
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <630013e6-ced6-4849-90a4-2766b73bdf2f@default> (raw)
The doc - both Elisp manual and doc string, should explicitly point out
that this returns non-nil for a directory, IOW, a non-nil value does not
mean that the file can be, say, inserted into a buffer.
In addition, it would be better to change the parameter name to
FILE-OR-DIR (or even FILE-OR-DIR-NAME). It is all to easy to not
realize, when reading this, that this does not test for a non-directory
file that is readable.
In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-06-28 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 117431 rgm@gnu.org-20140628015517-eku6hj8mpgcvfnso
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
--enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
next reply other threads:[~2014-08-22 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 21:14 Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-30 13:39 ` bug#18318: 24.4.50; doc of `file-readable-p' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-30 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<1e419547-674b-4a83-aff5-8ed9437894ef@default>
[not found] ` <<83pot7njxr.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-30 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-30 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=630013e6-ced6-4849-90a4-2766b73bdf2f@default \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=18318@debbugs.gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).