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authorStefan Monnier <[email protected]>2008-11-18 18:26:08 +0000
committerStefan Monnier <[email protected]>2008-11-18 18:26:08 +0000
commit35b05a7793f3e0f702ee8cd5aec68b2acbe815cd (patch)
treed253f382172c734760345c710f21e242cafcdea4 /doc
parentd0414e3656d63bbf5640c832cf6f630281bc23be (diff)
(confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer):
Rename from find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file. (read-buffer-to-switch): Use it.
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-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/files.texi14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi
index 28d9765a4b..93a6161d78 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi
@@ -240,14 +240,14 @@ moves or copies the file into the displayed directory. For details,
see @ref{Drag and Drop}, and @ref{Misc Dired Features}.
@cindex creating files
-@vindex find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file
- What if you want to create a new file? Just visit it. Emacs
-displays @samp{(New file)} in the echo area, but in other respects
-behaves as if you had visited an existing empty file. If you make
-changes and save them, the file is created. If you change the
-variable @code{find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file} to @code{t}, then
+@vindex confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer
+ What if you want to create a new file? Just visit it.
Emacs prompts you for confirmation before visiting a non-existent
-file.
+file, and displays @samp{(New file)} in the echo area, but in other
+respects behaves as if you had visited an existing empty file. If you
+make changes and save them, the file is created. If you change the
+variable @code{confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer} to @code{nil}, then
+Emacs will not even prompt you for confirmation.
@kindex C-x C-v
@findex find-alternate-file