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author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> | 1996-12-06 23:29:47 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> | 1996-12-06 23:29:47 +0000 |
commit | 7f118c357b4870968bb948807a8ceb6733cfedac (patch) | |
tree | 1a093847e0bdf2516137553242f88866cbf2ef1d | |
parent | d2585e899fd0ceab850a07850e3a4a734d6ce83f (diff) | |
download | emacs-7f118c357b4870968bb948807a8ceb6733cfedac.tar.gz |
(backup-buffer): Doc fix.
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/files.el | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 2b243780623..bbfd13351f2 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -1564,7 +1564,11 @@ Interactively, confirmation is required unless you supply a prefix argument." This is normally done before saving the buffer the first time. If the value is non-nil, it is the result of `file-modes' on the original file; this means that the caller, after saving the buffer, should change -the modes of the new file to agree with the old modes." +the modes of the new file to agree with the old modes. + +A backup may be done by renaming or by copying; see documentation of +variable `make-backup-files'. If it's done by renaming, then the file is +no longer accessible under its old name." (if (and make-backup-files (not backup-inhibited) (not buffer-backed-up) (file-exists-p buffer-file-name) |