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authorJuanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>2007-01-27 11:55:59 +0000
committerJuanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>2007-01-27 11:55:59 +0000
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(jka-compr-shell): Doc fix.
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+++ b/lisp/jka-compr.el
@@ -47,18 +47,9 @@
;; The default value of this variable allows jka-compr to work with
;; Unix compress and gzip.
;;
-;; If you are concerned about the stderr output of gzip and other
-;; compression/decompression programs showing up in your buffers, you
-;; should set the discard-error flag in the compression-info-list.
-;; This will cause the stderr of all programs to be discarded.
-;; However, it also causes emacs to call compression/uncompression
-;; programs through a shell (which is specified by jka-compr-shell).
-;; This may be a drag if, on your system, starting up a shell is
-;; slow.
-;;
;; If you don't want messages about compressing and decompressing
-;; to show up in the echo area, you can set the compress-name and
-;; decompress-name fields of the jka-compr-compression-info-list to
+;; to show up in the echo area, you can set the compress-msg and
+;; decompress-msg fields of the jka-compr-compression-info-list to
;; nil.
@@ -105,9 +96,7 @@
(defcustom jka-compr-shell "sh"
"*Shell to be used for calling compression programs.
-The value of this variable only matters if you want to discard the
-stderr of a compression/decompression program (see the documentation
-for `jka-compr-compression-info-list')."
+NOTE: Not used in MS-DOS and Windows systems."
:type 'string
:group 'jka-compr)