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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301300 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: Hi, >> The following elisp manual documentation patch explains to the user how >> to check if their emacs was compiled with file notification support. > > If this is supposed to be user-facing, shouldn't it be renamed to > `file-notify-library'? > >> +The variable @var{file-notify--library} is non-nil when Emacs has been >> +compiled with file notification support, and value is the name of the >> +low-level file notification package to be used for local file systems. It isn't a variable but a constant. And no, it isn't designed to be public. Is this needed to be exposed? file-notify-add-watch returns an error, if Emacs hasn't been compiled with file notification. Best regards, Michael.