Make the example more intuitive.

* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Expansion): Make the example more
  intuitive.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index c1a4f1e0729962351fcd4935a78f4dbc5e8ec7a8..259bf9a78a645f6d9ec80b6f10101d967a5bc593 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-06-11  Xue Fuqiao  <xfq.free@gmail.com>
+
+       * files.texi (File Name Expansion): Make the example more
+       intuitive.
+
 2013-06-10  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        Documentation fix for 'ls' and hard links.

diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi
index c4d51ebbfe5d96db4f8bd019fe75a5be755490e9..704ecfb6446f3b2f552ab3cf7e4c4727b1a7741e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi
@@ -2105,10 +2105,6 @@ start with @samp{~}.)  Otherwise, the current buffer's value of
 (expand-file-name "foo" "/usr/spool/")
      @result{} "/usr/spool/foo"
 @end group
-@group
-(expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
-     @result{} "/xcssun/users/rms/lewis/$HOME/foo"
-@end group
 @end example
 
 If the part of the combined file name before the first slash is
@@ -2142,7 +2138,14 @@ This is for the sake of filesystems that have the concept of a
 @file{/../} is interpreted exactly the same as @file{/}.
 
 Note that @code{expand-file-name} does @emph{not} expand environment
-variables; only @code{substitute-in-file-name} does that.
+variables; only @code{substitute-in-file-name} does that:
+
+@example
+@group
+(expand-file-name "$HOME/foo")
+     @result{} "/xcssun/users/rms/lewis/$HOME/foo"
+@end group
+@end example
 
 Note also that @code{expand-file-name} does not follow symbolic links
 at any level.  This results in a difference between the way