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-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/dired.texi9
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS8
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 61f5fe3260..0e532345c7 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
2010-03-21 Chong Yidong <[email protected]>
+ * dired.texi (Dired Updating): Document dired-auto-revert-buffer.
+
* search.texi (Other Repeating Search): Document multi-isearch-buffers
and multi-isearch-buffers-regexp.
diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
index aa2d92b3b0..f1a8b0aa9c 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
@@ -1099,6 +1099,15 @@ then updating their lines in the buffer to indicate that status.
If you use @kbd{l} on a subdirectory header line, it updates the
contents of the corresponding subdirectory.
+@vindex dired-auto-revert-buffer
+ If you use @kbd{C-x d} or some other Dired command to visit a
+directory that is already being shown in a Dired buffer, Dired
+switches to that buffer but does not update it. If the buffer is not
+up-to-date, Dired displays a warning telling you to type @key{g} to
+update it. You can also tell Emacs to revert each Dired buffer
+automatically when you revisit it, by setting the variable
+@code{dired-auto-revert-buffer} to a non-@code{nil} value.
+
@kindex k @r{(Dired)}
@findex dired-do-kill-lines
To delete the specified @emph{file lines} from the buffer---not
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 7416a199f5..6abb3e347c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ exempt buffers that do correspond to files, customize the value of
`desktop-files-not-to-save' instead.
** Dired
-
-*** The new variable `dired-auto-revert-buffer' allows to revert
-dired buffers automatically on revisiting.
++++
+*** The new variable `dired-auto-revert-buffer', if non-nil, causes
+Dired buffers to be reverted automatically on revisiting them.
** DocView
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ affecting the buffer's modification state.
The feature `hashtable-print-readable' identifies this new
functionality.
-** New functions performing Unicode normalization are added:
+** New functions for performing Unicode normalization:
ucs-normalize-NFD-region, ucs-normalize-NFD-string,
ucs-normalize-NFC-region, ucs-normalize-NFC-string,
ucs-normalize-NFKD-region, ucs-normalize-NFKD-string,