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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-02-07 11:04:52 +0200 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-02-07 11:04:52 +0200 |
commit | eca7da109248c40963c285417b878a8abcd84049 (patch) | |
tree | 71fcc8b2d947435de86f16dcb14ad7cbb179ca6c /doc | |
parent | 4f5033faf26c69c123452d750bb2adfa2e77666b (diff) | |
download | emacs-eca7da109248c40963c285417b878a8abcd84049.tar.gz |
Complete the remaining documentation updates for 24.5
doc/lispref/processes.texi (Synchronous Processes): Update documentation of
call-process-shell-command and process-file-shell-command.
etc/NEWS: Mark the entry for changed calling sequence of
call-process-shell-command and process-file-shell-command as documented.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/processes.texi | 16 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 911e698ad49..be2bb3e79ed 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2015-02-07 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> + + * processes.texi (Synchronous Processes): Update documentation of + call-process-shell-command and process-file-shell-command. + 2015-01-24 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> * searching.texi (Regexp Search): Add a cross-reference to "Syntax diff --git a/doc/lispref/processes.texi b/doc/lispref/processes.texi index 621e8a1bfba..cbc9ce4696c 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/processes.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/processes.texi @@ -503,17 +503,21 @@ inputinput@point{} @c It actually uses shell-command-switch, but no need to mention that here. @end defun -@defun call-process-shell-command command &optional infile destination display &rest args +@defun call-process-shell-command command &optional infile destination display This function executes the shell command @var{command} synchronously. -The final arguments @var{args} are additional arguments to add at the -end of @var{command}. The other arguments are handled as in -@code{call-process}. +The arguments are handled as in @code{call-process}. An old calling +convention allowed to pass any number of additional arguments after +@var{display}, which were concatenated to @var{command}; this is still +supported, but strongly discouraged. @end defun -@defun process-file-shell-command command &optional infile destination display &rest args +@defun process-file-shell-command command &optional infile destination display This function is like @code{call-process-shell-command}, but uses @code{process-file} internally. Depending on @code{default-directory}, -@var{command} can be executed also on remote hosts. +@var{command} can be executed also on remote hosts. An old calling +convention allowed to pass any number of additional arguments after +@var{display}, which were concatenated to @var{command}; this is still +supported, but strongly discouraged. @end defun @defun shell-command-to-string command |