From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 18318@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18318: 24.4.50; doc of `file-readable-p'
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:23:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9ejnefx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17f4e0f8-ca5a-40b6-bcaa-be508ffe4cd2@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:32:01 -0800 (GMT-08:00))
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:32:01 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 18318@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> What is misleading is that a reader might well not think that a
> directory name will return a non-nil value, and so assume that s?he
> can do things with it such as insert its contents in a buffer etc.
And she can, indeed, at least on some systems.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-30 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 21:14 bug#18318: 24.4.50; doc of `file-readable-p' Drew Adams
2016-04-30 13:39 ` 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 [this message]
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