* buffers.texi (Modification Time): Document visited-file-modtime change.
* modes.texi (Auto Major Mode): Document interpreter-mode-alist change.
+2013-12-28 Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
+
+ * modes.texi (Auto Major Mode): Document interpreter-mode-alist
+ change.
+
+ * buffers.texi (Modification Time): Document visited-file-modtime
+ change.
+
2013-12-28 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* control.texi (Pattern matching case statement): Brevity.
file should not be done.
@end defun
-@c Emacs 19 feature
@defun visited-file-modtime
This function returns the current buffer's recorded last file
modification time, as a list of the form @code{(@var{high} @var{low}
-@var{microsec} @var{picosec})}.
-(This is the same format that @code{file-attributes} uses to return
-time values; see @ref{File Attributes}.)
+@var{microsec} @var{picosec})}. (This is the same format that
+@code{file-attributes} uses to return time values; @pxref{File
+Attributes}.)
If the buffer has no recorded last modification time, this function
returns zero. This case occurs, for instance, if the buffer is not
too. For instance, in a Dired buffer listing a directory, it returns
the last modification time of that directory, as recorded by Dired.
-For a new buffer visiting a not yet existing file, @var{high} is
-@minus{}1 and @var{low} is 65535, that is,
-@ifnottex
-@w{2**16 @minus{} 1.}
-@end ifnottex
-@tex
-@math{2^{16}-1}.
-@end tex
+If the buffer is not visiting a file, this function returns -1.
@end defun
-@c Emacs 19 feature
@defun set-visited-file-modtime &optional time
This function updates the buffer's record of the last modification time
of the visited file, to the value specified by @var{time} if @var{time}
@defvar interpreter-mode-alist
This variable specifies major modes to use for scripts that specify a
command interpreter in a @samp{#!} line. Its value is an alist with
-elements of the form @code{(@var{interpreter} . @var{mode})}; for
-example, @code{("perl" . perl-mode)} is one element present by
-default. The element says to use mode @var{mode} if the file
-specifies an interpreter which matches @var{interpreter}.
+elements of the form @code{(@var{regexp} . @var{mode})}; this says to
+use mode @var{mode} if the file specifies an interpreter which matches
+@code{\\`@var{regexp}\\'}. For example, one of the default elements
+is @code{("python[0-9.]*" . python-mode)}.
@end defvar
@defvar magic-mode-alist
`file-extended-attributes'. The attributes can be applied to another
file using `set-file-extended-attributes'.
++++
** `visited-file-modtime' now returns -1 for nonexistent files.
Formerly it returned a list (-1 LOW USEC PSEC), but this was ambiguous
in the presence of files with negative time stamps.
++++
** The cars of the elements in `interpreter-mode-alist' are now
-treated as regexps rather than literal strings. This change should
-not affect you unless you are using `interpreter-mode-alist' for
-something (not just adding elements to it).
+treated as regexps rather than literal strings.
\f
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.4