Re: [PATCH] elisp manual patch: add to file notification documentation

[Stefan Kangas]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> The following elisp manual documentation patch explains to the user how
> to check if their emacs was compiled with file notification support.

If this is supposed to be user-facing, shouldn't it be renamed to
`file-notify-library'?

> diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi
> index 3e16ac0..2546074 100644
> --- a/doc/lispref/os.texi
> +++ b/doc/lispref/os.texi
> @@ -3146,6 +3146,10 @@ respective library like @file{inotify}, @file{kqueue},
>  @file{gfilenotify}, or @file{w32notify} statically.  These libraries
>  enable watching of filesystems on the local machine.
>
> +The variable @var{file-notify--library} is non-nil when Emacs has been
> +compiled with file notification support, and value is the name of the
> +low-level file notification package to be used for local file systems.
> +
>  It is also possible to watch filesystems on remote machines,
>  @pxref{Remote Files,, Remote Files, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.
>  This does not depend on one of the libraries linked to Emacs.