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bug#28963: 24.5; doc string of `dired-find-alternate-file'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28963: 24.5; doc string of `dired-find-alternate-file' |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:59:01 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> This doc string needs improvement:
>
> In Dired, visit this file or directory instead of the Dired buffer.
>
> The real meaning depends on what one understands by "instead of the
> Dired buffer". Many users will likely (mis)understand only that the
> file or directory is visited in place of the current Dired buffer.
> They won't understand that the current buffer will be killed.
>
> If the idea is to keep the doc string short, it would be far more
> helpful to say that it uses `find-alternate-file', because that command
> has much better documentation. In particular, it says explicitly: "kill
> previous buffer".
I did both, thanks.