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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''





             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

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