Mercurial > emacs
changeset 80812:08cc1154f281
~ description fixes from rms
| author | Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:01:38 +0000 |
| parents | f40c1549ef99 |
| children | 265e617f0adb |
| files | man/ChangeLog man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/ChangeLog Sat Apr 28 17:56:06 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/ChangeLog Sat Apr 28 18:01:38 2007 +0000 @@ -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.
--- a/man/files.texi Sat Apr 28 17:56:06 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Sat Apr 28 18:01:38 2007 +0000 @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ 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.}.