Re: emacs-26 99f92da: Improve documentation of 'directory-files-and-attributes'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

address@hidden (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> +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'.

Heh, I read the same reddit post, apparently, and fixed it like this on
master: 

+The list returned has elements that contain the data from
+`file-attributes' for each file -- with the file name prepended.  So
+the structure of each element is
+`(FILE-NAME FILE-ATTRIBUTE1 FILE-ATTRIBUTE2 ...)'.
+
+For instance, to get the size of the fourth element in a directory,
+you could say:
+
+  (file-attribute-size (cdr (nth 3 (directory-files-and-attributes "/"))))
+

Because (FILE1 FILE1-ATTRS) is a bit ambiguous, since it could mean

("file-name" (t 27 0 0 (23311 56666 366991 953000) (23220 586 761023 102000) 
(23220 586 761023 102000) 4096 "drwxr-xr-x" t 2 66306))

instead of

("file-name" t 27 0 0 (23311 56666 366991 953000) (23220 586 761023 102000) 
(23220 586 761023 102000) 4096 "drwxr-xr-x" t 2 66306)

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