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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-02-09 15:32:48 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-02-09 15:32:48 +0200 |
commit | 898a3e47846e78453e89f9f46673297e962dbd70 (patch) | |
tree | 29b7c9f040f316a4c92126587550e7a4226ac95f /doc/emacs/files.texi | |
parent | 8f7d7184996afcf91e9119bcc297448fcd740f3d (diff) | |
download | emacs-898a3e47846e78453e89f9f46673297e962dbd70.tar.gz |
Minor improvement in Emacs user manual
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Directories): Document that
'directory-free-space-program' and 'directory-free-space-args' are
only for local filesystems. Suggested by Michael Albinus
<michael.albinus@gmx.de> in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/files.texi')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 0b7a6bcb526..45db6d88b4c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -1302,10 +1302,14 @@ default). @vindex directory-free-space-program @vindex directory-free-space-args In verbose directory listings, Emacs adds information about the -amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. To do -this, it runs the program specified by -@code{directory-free-space-program} with arguments -@code{directory-free-space-args}. +amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. You can +customize how this is done for local filesystems via the variables +@code{directory-free-space-program} and +@code{directory-free-space-args}: the former specifies what program to +run (default: @command{df}), the latter which arguments to pass to +that program (default is system-dependent). (On MS-Windows and +MS-DOS, these two variables are ignored, and an internal Emacs +implementation of the same functionality is used instead.) The command @kbd{M-x delete-directory} prompts for a directory's name using the minibuffer, and deletes the directory if it is empty. If |