[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/files.texi

[Richard M. Stallman]

Index: emacs/lispref/files.texi
diff -c emacs/lispref/files.texi:1.52 emacs/lispref/files.texi:1.53
*** emacs/lispref/files.texi:1.52       Mon Jul  7 16:48:26 2003
--- emacs/lispref/files.texi    Mon Jul 14 11:53:56 2003
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  @deffn Command copy-file oldname newname &optional ok-if-exists time
  This command copies the file @var{oldname} to @var{newname}.  An
! error is signaled if @var{oldname} does not exist.
  
  If @var{time} is address@hidden, then this function gives the new file
  the same last-modified time that the old one has.  (This works on only
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  @deffn Command copy-file oldname newname &optional ok-if-exists time
  This command copies the file @var{oldname} to @var{newname}.  An
! error is signaled if @var{oldname} does not exist.  If @var{newname}
! names a directory, it copies @var{oldname} into that directory,
! preserving its final name component.
  
  If @var{time} is address@hidden, then this function gives the new file
  the same last-modified time that the old one has.  (This works on only
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  @noindent
  The @var{handler} then needs to figure out whether to handle
  @var{filename} or @var{dirname}.
+ 
+ If the specified file name matches more than one handler, the one
+ whose match starts last in the file name gets precedence.  This rule
+ is chosen so that handlers for jobs such as uncompression are handled
+ first, before handlers for jobs such as remote file access.
  
  Here are the operations that a magic file name handler gets to handle: