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| -rw-r--r-- | man/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/files.texi | 6 |
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diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 5d764d2be0d..95de88b0e8f 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-04-28 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> + + * files.texi (File Names): Fixes to ~ description on MS systems. + 2007-04-27 J.D. Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> * idlwave.texi: Minor updates for IDLWAVE 6.1. diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index 16acf241433..588fe4cae0b 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ first slash in the double slash; the result is @samp{/x1/rms/foo}. or @file{~@var{user-id}/} to mean the home directory of a user whose login name is @code{user-id}@footnote{ On MS-Windows and MS-DOS systems, where a user doesn't have a home -directory, Emacs substitutes @file{~/} with the value of the -environment variable @code{HOME}; see @ref{General Variables}. The -@file{~@var{user-id}/} construct is supported on those systems only +directory, Emacs replaces @file{~/} with the value of the +environment variable @code{HOME}; see @ref{General Variables}. On +these systems, the @file{~@var{user-id}/} construct is supported only for the current user, i.e., only if @var{user-id} is the current user's login name.}. |