bug#18201: 24.4.50; doc string of `file-accessible-directory-p'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> 3. The biggest problem with this doc string is that it refers to
>>    something called a "directory name spec", without either (1) saying
>>    what that is or (2) telling you where to find this information.  You
>>    CANNOT understand this doc string without knowing what "directory
>>    name spec" means.
>
> Hm...  I don't know what the doc string means here.  And looking at the
> code, I still don't understand.  Anybody?

The manual had a better explanation, so I copied that over in Emacs 28.

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