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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How to conduct common file tests in elisp
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r646i0by.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)

I'm attempting to look up in the elisp manual how to conduct a
standard file test.

It is not easy to find.

I've tried index search for `file test' <no hits>

Manual search with the common C-s search of the table of contents in
the info manual for `test'.  None of the hits were about file tests.

And finally `s' search which pours through the whole manual on string 
file.*test.. again none of the hits were about standard file tests
like -f file, -d directory, -r file, -x file etc etc.

How is it done?





             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18  4:17 Harry Putnam [this message]
2008-12-18  4:24 ` How to conduct common file tests in elisp Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-18  9:10   ` Peter Dyballa
2008-12-18 22:59   ` Harry Putnam
2008-12-19  7:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.3009.1229573856.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-18  9:24 ` Andreas Politz

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