Mercurial > emacs
changeset 80566:8cae8b681159
(Windows Files): Update the documentation of w32-get-true-file-attributes.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 10 May 2008 08:42:23 +0000 |
| parents | 8db4c99b8739 |
| children | 0d961d6ec7ba |
| files | man/msdog.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/msdog.texi Sat May 10 07:58:50 2008 +0000 +++ b/man/msdog.texi Sat May 10 08:42:23 2008 +0000 @@ -171,11 +171,13 @@ default ignores letter-case in file names during completion. @vindex w32-get-true-file-attributes - If the variable @code{w32-get-true-file-attributes} is -non-@code{nil} (the default), Emacs tries to determine the accurate -link counts for files. This option is only useful on NTFS volumes, -and it considerably slows down Dired and other features, so use it -only on fast machines. + If the variable @code{w32-get-true-file-attributes} is @code{local} +(the default), Emacs tries to determine the accurate link counts and +file types for files on local fixed drives. Any other non-@code{nil} +value means do this even on remote and removable volumes, where it +could slow down Dired and other similar features; @code{nil} means +never do this. Setting this option to non-@code{nil} is only useful +on NTFS volumes. @node ls in Lisp @section Emulation of @code{ls} on MS-Windows