From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:32:48 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Minor improvement in Emacs user manual X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.1-rc1~238 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=898a3e47846e78453e89f9f46673297e962dbd70;p=emacs.git Minor improvement in Emacs user manual * doc/emacs/files.texi (Directories): Document that 'directory-free-space-program' and 'directory-free-space-args' are only for local filesystems. Suggested by Michael Albinus in emacs-manual-bugs@gnu.org. --- diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 0b7a6bcb526..45db6d88b4c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -1302,10 +1302,14 @@ default). @vindex directory-free-space-program @vindex directory-free-space-args In verbose directory listings, Emacs adds information about the -amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. To do -this, it runs the program specified by -@code{directory-free-space-program} with arguments -@code{directory-free-space-args}. +amount of free space on the disk that contains the directory. You can +customize how this is done for local filesystems via the variables +@code{directory-free-space-program} and +@code{directory-free-space-args}: the former specifies what program to +run (default: @command{df}), the latter which arguments to pass to +that program (default is system-dependent). (On MS-Windows and +MS-DOS, these two variables are ignored, and an internal Emacs +implementation of the same functionality is used instead.) The command @kbd{M-x delete-directory} prompts for a directory's name using the minibuffer, and deletes the directory if it is empty. If