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Improve documentation of 'directory-files-and-attributes'

* doc/lispref/files.texi (Contents of Directories): Fix inaccurate
description of the return value of directory-files-and-attributes.

* src/dired.c (Fdirectory_files_and_attributes): Describe the
function's value in more detail.
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Eli Zaretskii 2018-06-01 11:27:29 +03:00
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@ -2917,8 +2917,8 @@ are included.
This is similar to @code{directory-files} in deciding which files
to report on and how to report their names. However, instead
of returning a list of file names, it returns for each file a
list @code{(@var{filename} . @var{attributes})}, where @var{attributes}
is what @code{file-attributes} would return for that file.
list @code{(@var{filename} @var{attributes})}, where @var{attributes}
is what @code{file-attributes} returns for that file.
The optional argument @var{id-format} has the same meaning as the
corresponding argument to @code{file-attributes} (@pxref{Definition
of file-attributes}).

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@ -358,7 +358,14 @@ If NOSORT is non-nil, the list is not sorted--its order is unpredictable.
DEFUN ("directory-files-and-attributes", Fdirectory_files_and_attributes,
Sdirectory_files_and_attributes, 1, 5, 0,
doc: /* Return a list of names of files and their attributes in DIRECTORY.
There are four optional arguments:
Value is a list of the form:
((FILE1 FILE1-ATTRS) (FILE2 FILE2-ATTRS) ...)
where each FILEn-ATTRS is the attributes of FILEn as returned
by `file-attributes'.
This function accepts four optional arguments:
If FULL is non-nil, return absolute file names. Otherwise return names
that are relative to the specified directory.
If MATCH is non-nil, mention only file names that match the regexp MATCH.