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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-08-29 17:02:46 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-08-29 17:02:46 +0300
commit4d52fe6b968b63e9c9025121147d4930ca65a05f (patch)
tree71a192424d9f4971a2ff0599d5779dbecbc474c5
parentd111b5b6512e1c8e932572906e2f516832e6c408 (diff)
downloademacs-4d52fe6b968b63e9c9025121147d4930ca65a05f.tar.gz
* lisp/find-file.el (ff-other-file-alist): Doc fix. (Bug#57325)
-rw-r--r--lisp/find-file.el7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/find-file.el b/lisp/find-file.el
index 614ff420f25..e9aba883ae1 100644
--- a/lisp/find-file.el
+++ b/lisp/find-file.el
@@ -204,7 +204,12 @@ The list of extensions should contain the most used extensions before the
others, since the search algorithm searches sequentially through each
directory specified in `ff-search-directories'. If a file is not found,
a new one is created with the first matching extension (`.cc' yields `.hh').
-This alist should be set by the major mode."
+This alist should be set by the major mode.
+
+Note: if an element of the alist names a FUNCTION as its cdr, that
+function must return a non-nil list of file-name extensions. It cannot
+return nil, nor can it signal in any way a failure to find a suitable
+list of extensions."
:type '(choice (repeat (list regexp (choice (repeat string) function)))
symbol))