[Emacs-diffs] trunk r116357: (backup-inhibited): Doc clarification

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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revno: 116357
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
fixes bug: http://debbugs.gnu.org/12525
committer: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
branch nick: trunk
timestamp: Sat 2014-02-08 19:02:45 -0800
message:
  (backup-inhibited): Doc clarification
modified:
  lisp/ChangeLog                 changelog-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1432
  lisp/files.el                  files.el-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-265

=== modified file 'lisp/ChangeLog'
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog    2014-02-09 02:58:24 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog    2014-02-09 03:02:45 +0000
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
        readedness (bug#13261).
        (locate-file): Suffixes aren't returned, so don't say that they
        are (bug#12674).
+       (backup-inhibited): Doc clarification (bug#12525).
 
        * dired.el (dired-internal-do-deletions): Don't say "Deleting..."
        before we actually start to delete things (bug#16331).

=== modified file 'lisp/files.el'
--- a/lisp/files.el     2014-02-09 02:58:24 +0000
+++ b/lisp/files.el     2014-02-09 03:02:45 +0000
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@
 ;; Do this so that local variables based on the file name
 ;; are not overridden by the major mode.
 (defvar backup-inhibited nil
-  "Non-nil means don't make a backup, regardless of the other parameters.
-This variable is intended for use by making it local to a buffer.
-But it is local only if you make it local.")
+  "If non-nil, backups will be inhibited.
+This variable is intended for use by making it local to a buffer,
+but it is not an automatically buffer-local variable.")
 (put 'backup-inhibited 'permanent-local t)
 
 (defcustom backup-by-copying nil