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diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index 114eb1f38ea..971e38f20b7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -533,9 +533,9 @@ is visiting the file @var{filename}: these include the buffer's visited file name and its last save file modtime. This feature is used by @code{find-file-noselect} and you probably should not use it yourself. -If @var{beg} and @var{end} are non-@code{nil}, they should be integers -specifying the portion of the file to insert. In this case, @var{visit} -must be @code{nil}. For example, +If @var{beg} and @var{end} are non-@code{nil}, they should be numbers +that are byte offsets specifying the portion of the file to insert. +In this case, @var{visit} must be @code{nil}. For example, @example (insert-file-contents filename nil 0 500) @@ -605,8 +605,8 @@ that string, rather than text from the buffer. @var{end} is ignored in this case. If @var{append} is non-@code{nil}, then the specified text is appended -to the existing file contents (if any). If @var{append} is an -integer, @code{write-region} seeks to that byte offset from the start +to the existing file contents (if any). If @var{append} is a +number, @code{write-region} seeks to that byte offset from the start of the file and writes the data from there. If @var{mustbenew} is non-@code{nil}, then @code{write-region} asks @@ -2681,7 +2681,7 @@ no prefix argument is given, and @code{nil} otherwise. You can implement special handling for certain file names. This is called making those names @dfn{magic}. The principal use for this -feature is in implementing remote file names (@pxref{Remote Files,, +feature is in implementing access to remote files (@pxref{Remote Files,, Remote Files, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}). To define a kind of magic file name, you must supply a regular @@ -2689,6 +2689,7 @@ expression to define the class of names (all those that match the regular expression), plus a handler that implements all the primitive Emacs file operations for file names that match. +@cindex file handler @vindex file-name-handler-alist The variable @code{file-name-handler-alist} holds a list of handlers, together with regular expressions that determine when to apply each |