From: Chong Yidong Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:50:49 +0000 (+0800) Subject: * lread.c (Fload): Doc fix. X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.2.90~211^2~28 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c664f46329c8a18e7a1db89942f2e65a9e7892ac;p=emacs.git * lread.c (Fload): Doc fix. Fixes: debbugs:12592 --- diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog index 5a1b4a5d8ee..1a309066703 100644 --- a/src/ChangeLog +++ b/src/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2012-10-20 Chong Yidong + + * lread.c (Fload): Doc fix (Bug#12592). + 2012-10-19 Kazuhiro Ito (tiny change) * font.c (Ffont_at): Fix previous change. diff --git a/src/lread.c b/src/lread.c index 6d4c0d990af..94744620279 100644 --- a/src/lread.c +++ b/src/lread.c @@ -996,18 +996,17 @@ If optional fifth arg MUST-SUFFIX is non-nil, insist on the suffix `.elc' or `.el'; don't accept just FILE unless it ends in one of those suffixes or includes a directory name. -If this function fails to find a file, it may look for different -representations of that file before trying another file. -It does so by adding the non-empty suffixes in `load-file-rep-suffixes' -to the file name. Emacs uses this feature mainly to find compressed -versions of files when Auto Compression mode is enabled. - -The exact suffixes that this function tries out, in the exact order, -are given by the value of the variable `load-file-rep-suffixes' if -NOSUFFIX is non-nil and by the return value of the function -`get-load-suffixes' if MUST-SUFFIX is non-nil. If both NOSUFFIX and -MUST-SUFFIX are nil, this function first tries out the latter suffixes -and then the former. +If NOSUFFIX is nil, then if a file could not be found, try looking for +a different representation of the file by adding non-empty suffixes to +its name, before trying another file. Emacs uses this feature to find +compressed versions of files when Auto Compression mode is enabled. +If NOSUFFIX is non-nil, disable this feature. + +The suffixes that this function tries out, when NOSUFFIX is nil, are +given by the return value of `get-load-suffixes' and the values listed +in `load-file-rep-suffixes'. If MUST-SUFFIX is non-nil, only the +return value of `get-load-suffixes' is used, i.e. the file name is +required to have a non-empty suffix. Loading a file records its definitions, and its `provide' and `require' calls, in an element of `load-history' whose