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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-02-23 11:51:31 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2018-02-23 11:52:18 -0800
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Minor doc fixes, mostly for timestamp issues
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/buffers.texi b/doc/lispref/buffers.texi
index a572fc702bd..f64d6f1600e 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/buffers.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/buffers.texi
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ visiting a file or if the time has been explicitly cleared by
too. For instance, in a Dired buffer listing a directory, it returns
the last modification time of that directory, as recorded by Dired.
-If the buffer is not visiting a file, this function returns -1.
+If the buffer is not visiting a file, this function returns @minus{}1.
@end defun
@defun set-visited-file-modtime &optional time
@@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ of the visited file, to the value specified by @var{time} if @var{time}
is not @code{nil}, and otherwise to the last modification time of the
visited file.
-If @var{time} is neither @code{nil} nor zero, it should have the form
+If @var{time} is neither @code{nil} nor an integer flag returned
+by @code{visited-file-modtime}, it should have the form
@code{(@var{high} @var{low} @var{microsec} @var{picosec})},
the format used by @code{current-time} (@pxref{Time of Day}).