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bug#977: 23.0.60; doc string of `filesets-data'


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: bug#977: 23.0.60; doc string of `filesets-data'
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:46:33 -0400

Hi Thomas, here's a documentation bug report for filesets.el:

> This part of the doc string is incorrect:
> 
>   :pattern DIR PATTERN ... PATTERN is a regular expression
>   comprising path and file pattern -- e.g. 'PATH/^REGEXP$'.
>   Note the `^' at the beginning of the file name pattern.
> 
> I think this text reflects an older version of filesets.el, before the
> change in :pattern format. See doc string of
> `filesets-update-pre010505' for an explanation of the change in
> format.
> 
> IIUC, DIR is a pattern that matches a directory and PATTERN is a
> pattern that matches files (and subdirs) in that directory.  The old
> format combinded DIR and PATTERN in one regexp, but they are now
> separated, so the text about PATTERN "comprising path and file pattern
> -- e.g. 'PATH/^REGEXP$'" is simply wrong.  (Besides which, we don't
> use "path" this way in the Emacs doc - we use "directory" instead.)

What's the difference between :tree and :pattern here?






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