(backup-inhibited): Doc clarification

Fixes: debbugs:12525

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index be72db024e536e416ee0c7b441f9670058b83dec..6e55544253fcddb57cc245744fe929e48b85ea4b 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
        readedness (bug#13261).
        (locate-file): Suffixes aren't returned, so don't say that they
        are (bug#12674).
+       (backup-inhibited): Doc clarification (bug#12525).
 
        * dired.el (dired-internal-do-deletions): Don't say "Deleting..."
        before we actually start to delete things (bug#16331).

diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 0cd4c29e1efe4bb69cd40e00426a040fd5c1dccf..835db3eab18aefd9845c9b37466dbb5efe0ef128 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ The choice of renaming or copying is controlled by the variables
 ;; Do this so that local variables based on the file name
 ;; are not overridden by the major mode.
 (defvar backup-inhibited nil
-  "Non-nil means don't make a backup, regardless of the other parameters.
-This variable is intended for use by making it local to a buffer.
-But it is local only if you make it local.")
+  "If non-nil, backups will be inhibited.
+This variable is intended for use by making it local to a buffer,
+but it is not an automatically buffer-local variable.")
 (put 'backup-inhibited 'permanent-local t)
 
 (defcustom backup-by-copying nil