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| author | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> | 2005-05-14 00:56:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu> | 2005-05-14 00:56:30 +0000 |
| commit | 54005870a2197b6599734297cb2f46dbadc10558 (patch) | |
| tree | 568f14a23c15c11f6caa254cf8ca43eb4f79b21e /lisp/files.el | |
| parent | 522e224056c0cb366fb8081260c43634a17cbb38 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-54005870a2197b6599734297cb2f46dbadc10558.tar.gz | |
(interpreter-mode-alist, auto-mode-interpreter-regexp): Doc fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/files.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/files.el | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 16438b78073..50359d635a8 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ DIR should be an absolute directory name. It defaults to the value of `default-directory'." (unless dir (setq dir default-directory)) - (read-file-name prompt dir (or default-dirname + (read-file-name prompt dir (or default-dirname (if initial (expand-file-name initial dir) dir)) mustmatch initial @@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ and `magic-mode-alist', which determines modes based on file contents.") "Alist mapping interpreter names to major modes. This is used for files whose first lines match `auto-mode-interpreter-regexp'. Each element looks like (INTERPRETER . MODE). -The car of each element is compared with +The car of each element, a regular expression, is compared with the name of the interpreter specified in the first line. If it matches, mode MODE is selected. @@ -1961,13 +1961,12 @@ from the end of the file name anything that matches one of these regexps.") (defvar auto-mode-interpreter-regexp "#![ \t]?\\([^ \t\n]*\ /bin/env[ \t]\\)?\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" - "Regular expression matching interpreters, for file mode determination. + "Regexp matching interpreters, for file mode determination. This regular expression is matched against the first line of a file -to determine the file's mode in `set-auto-mode' when Emacs can't deduce -a mode from the file's name. If it matches, the file is assumed to -be interpreted by the interpreter matched by the second group of the -regular expression. The mode is then determined as the mode associated -with that interpreter in `interpreter-mode-alist'.") +to determine the file's mode in `set-auto-mode'. If it matches, the file +is assumed to be interpreted by the interpreter matched by the second group +of the regular expression. The mode is then determined as the mode +associated with that interpreter in `interpreter-mode-alist'.") (defvar magic-mode-alist `(;; The < comes before the groups (but the first) to reduce backtracking. |