From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to conduct common file tests in elisp Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:21 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r646i0by.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229573886 18075 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2008 04:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:18:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 18 05:19:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDALu-000635-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDAKi-0005Kj-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDAKM-0005Js-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDAKM-0005Jg-5Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56869 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDAKL-0005Jd-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52343 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDAKL-0001op-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LDAKH-0007AM-MI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:17:29 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:17:29 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:17:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JXpVztuDvAqqknvTMBZ8LuPEOsQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60769 Archived-At: 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' 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?