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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-01-08 12:40:14 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-01-08 12:40:14 +0200
commit30abf295e8add1afa3963de7bf4bae9aa2c71434 (patch)
tree122858e90aa8f8c808d021b1cc1eb92b9156297e
parente990bb270e574eb6d329056e28be9340d9a042ef (diff)
downloademacs-30abf295e8add1afa3963de7bf4bae9aa2c71434.tar.gz
Clarify doc string of 'dired-current-directory'
* lisp/dired.el (dired-current-directory): Doc fix: clarify that the return value might not end in a slash when called with the optional argument non-nil. (Bug#6273)
-rw-r--r--lisp/dired.el4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 5b5b6f073df..e023da27be3 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -2806,7 +2806,9 @@ It runs the hook `dired-initial-position-hook'."
(defun dired-current-directory (&optional localp)
"Return the name of the subdirectory to which this line belongs.
This returns a string with trailing slash, like `default-directory'.
-Optional argument means return a file name relative to `default-directory'."
+Optional argument means return a file name relative to `default-directory',
+in which case the value could be an empty string if `default-directory'
+is the directory where the file on this line resides."
(let ((here (point))
(alist (or dired-subdir-alist
;; probably because called in a non-dired buffer