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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/buffers.texi')
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/buffers.texi b/doc/lispref/buffers.texi index 1acf4baedba..8789a8d56f6 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/buffers.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/buffers.texi @@ -648,10 +648,7 @@ file should not be done. @defun visited-file-modtime This function returns the current buffer's recorded last file -modification time, as a list of the form @code{(@var{high} @var{low} -@var{microsec} @var{picosec})}. (This is the same format that -@code{file-attributes} uses to return time values; @pxref{File -Attributes}.) +modification time, as a Lisp timestamp (@pxref{Time of Day}). If the buffer has no recorded last modification time, this function returns zero. This case occurs, for instance, if the buffer is not @@ -671,9 +668,8 @@ is not @code{nil}, and otherwise to the last modification time of the visited file. 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}). +by @code{visited-file-modtime}, it should be a Lisp time value +(@pxref{Time of Day}). This function is useful if the buffer was not read from the file normally, or if the file itself has been changed for some known benign |