From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:58:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (File Name Expansion): Clarify previous change. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.99~122 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9451a808080ccb9c7beb420f75b0445d143a3b9e;p=emacs.git (File Name Expansion): Clarify previous change. --- diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi index e2bc57c5567..656dbf346dc 100644 --- a/lispref/files.texi +++ b/lispref/files.texi @@ -1990,7 +1990,7 @@ canonical form: @end group @end example -In some cases, a leading @samp{..} can remain in the output: +In some cases, a leading @samp{..} component can remain in the output: @example @group @@ -1999,7 +1999,8 @@ In some cases, a leading @samp{..} can remain in the output: @end group @end example -This is for use with filesystems that have the concept of a +@noindent +This is for the sake of filesystems that have the concept of a ``superroot'' above the root directory @file{/}. On other filesystems, @file{/../} is interpreted exactly the same as @file{/}.