; * src/fns.c (Frequire): Fix wording of doc string.

diff --git a/src/fns.c b/src/fns.c
index d46edf7705afd1f9b3481a50f68a115d72114637..65dc3b61f2b861b40cbdae3d192c2e7506dd0cf4 100644 (file)
--- a/src/fns.c
+++ b/src/fns.c
@@ -3101,25 +3101,25 @@ require_unwind (Lisp_Object old_value)
 }
 
 DEFUN ("require", Frequire, Srequire, 1, 3, 0,
-       doc: /* If feature FEATURE is not loaded, load it from FILENAME.
-If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature is
-not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.
+       doc: /* If FEATURE is not already loaded, load it from FILENAME.
+If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature was
+not yet loaded; so load it from file FILENAME.
 
 If FILENAME is omitted, the printname of FEATURE is used as the file
-name, and `load' will try to load this name appended with the suffix
-`.elc', `.el', or the system-dependent suffix for dynamic module
-files, in that order.  The name without appended suffix will not be
-used.  See `get-load-suffixes' for the complete list of suffixes.
+name, and `load' is called to try to load the file by that name, after
+appending the suffix `.elc', `.el', or the system-dependent suffix for
+dynamic module files, in that order; but the function will not try to
+load the file without any suffix.  See `get-load-suffixes' for the
+complete list of suffixes.
 
-The directories in `load-path' are searched when trying to find the
-file name.
+To find the file, this function searches that directories in `load-path'.
 
-If the optional third argument NOERROR is non-nil, then return nil if
-the file is not found instead of signaling an error.  Normally the
-return value is FEATURE.
+If the optional third argument NOERROR is non-nil, then, if
+the file is not found, the function returns nil instead of signaling
+an error.  Normally the return value is FEATURE.
 
-The normal messages at start and end of loading FILENAME are
-suppressed.  */)
+The normal messages issued by `load' at start and end of loading
+FILENAME are suppressed.  */)
   (Lisp_Object feature, Lisp_Object filename, Lisp_Object noerror)
 {
   Lisp_Object tem;