From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:40:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: write-region change
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~4013
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82400f5661a77cfab65d057676790ee48d254af5;p=emacs.git

write-region change
---

diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi
index cf6fb8f5739..e27ab8f81d2 100644
--- a/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/lispref/files.texi
@@ -550,7 +550,9 @@ that string, rather than text from the buffer.  @var{end} is ignored in
 this case.
 
 If @var{append} is non-@code{nil}, then the specified text is appended
-to the existing file contents (if any).
+to the existing file contents (if any).  Starting in Emacs 21, if
+@var{append} is an integer, then @code{write-region} seeks to that byte
+offset from the start of the file and writes the data from there.
 
 If @var{mustbenew} is non-@code{nil}, then @code{write-region} asks
 for confirmation if @var{filename} names an existing file.