# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 975770604 0
# Node ID 2d8a69640e7f8904162980453560e130833fb6f7
# Parent  426e7abc44da48d7f97d99b288b0b2799e8bd4a5
Elaborate on the normal operation with find-file-existing-other-name
set to t.

diff -r 426e7abc44da -r 2d8a69640e7f man/files.texi
--- a/man/files.texi	Sat Dec 02 14:48:58 2000 +0000
+++ b/man/files.texi	Sat Dec 02 15:23:24 2000 +0000
@@ -975,6 +975,11 @@
 two different buffers, but it warns you about the situation.
 
 @vindex find-file-existing-other-name 
+  Normally, if you visit a file which Emacs is already visiting under a
+different name, Emacs prints a message in the echo area and uses an
+existing buffer, where that file is visited under another name.  This
+can happen on systems that support symbolic links, or if you use a long
+file name on a system which truncates long file names.
 
   If Emacs should use different buffers when visiting the same file
 under different names, set the variable