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authorMichael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>2009-10-05 07:57:30 +0000
committerMichael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>2009-10-05 07:57:30 +0000
commit50b49aded74fa50ae983a29972d30ee455eccac2 (patch)
tree925a54ea2303f13c49e080dcb04cc335fd7a8b95
parent0e1f2ee62a341fc0d1c69930b524c4f8d00d156a (diff)
downloademacs-50b49aded74fa50ae983a29972d30ee455eccac2.tar.gz
* files.texi (Misc File Ops): Mention copy-directory.
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/files.texi5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 4464c75c910..86b8e8a5f89 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-10-05 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
+
+ * files.texi (Misc File Ops): Mention copy-directory.
+
2009-10-04 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* mule.texi (Unibyte Mode): Emphasize that
diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi
index be987afbbe5..cee43b390ea 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi
@@ -1567,9 +1567,12 @@ On MS-Windows, this command works only if the file resides in an NTFS
file system. On MS-DOS, it works by copying the file.
@findex copy-file
+@findex copy-directory
@cindex copying files
@kbd{M-x copy-file} reads the file @var{old} and writes a new file
-named @var{new} with the same contents.
+named @var{new} with the same contents. @kbd{M-x copy-directory} does
+the same for directories, by recursive copying all files and
+subdirectories.
@findex make-symbolic-link
@cindex symbolic links (creation)