From 898a3e47846e78453e89f9f46673297e962dbd70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:32:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- doc/emacs/files.texi | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.39.2