From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18318@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18318: 24.4.50; doc of `file-readable-p'
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:39:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn4rrzb3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <630013e6-ced6-4849-90a4-2766b73bdf2f@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 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.
Well, the function isn't about files or directories, but filenames. It
can be a fifo, a device node, etc. So I think the doc is fine as it is.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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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 [this message]
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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