(Truenames): Add LIMIT arg to file-chase-links.

2 files changed, 51 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lispref/ChangeLog b/lispref/ChangeLog
index 765b3c4d4e9..d06f67e0104 100644
--- a/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,50 @@
+2003-07-22  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
+
+        * files.texi (Truenames): Add LIMIT arg to file-chase-links.
+
+        * display.texi (Width): Use \s syntax in example.
+        (Font Selection): Add face-font-rescale-alist.
+
+        * modes.texi (Imenu): Add xref to Emacs Manual node on Imenu.
+        Remove spurious indent in example.
+
+        * lists.texi (Building Lists): Add number-sequence.
+
+        * internals.texi (Garbage Collection): Add gcs-done, gc-elapsed.
+
+        * functions.texi (Function Documentation): Explain how to
+        show calling convention explicitly in the doc string.
+
+        * windows.texi (Selecting Windows): save-selected-window saves
+        selected window of each frame.
+        (Window Configurations): Minor change.
+
+        * syntax.texi (Syntax Table Functions): Use \s syntax in examples.
+
+        * streams.texi (Output Variables): Add print-continuous-numbering
+        and print-number-table.
+
+        * processes.texi (Decoding Output): New node.
+
+        * os.texi (Time Conversion): decode-time arg is optional.
+
+        * objects.texi (Character Type): Don't use space as example for \.
+        Make list of char names and \-sequences correspond.
+        Explain that \s is not used in strings.  `\ ' needs space after.
+
+        * nonascii.texi (Converting Representations): Add string-to-multibyte.
+        (Translation of Characters): Add translation-table-for-input.
+        (Default Coding Systems): Add auto-coding-functions.
+        (Explicit Encoding): Add decode-coding-inserted-region.
+        (Locales): Add locale-info.
+
+        * minibuf.texi (Basic Completion): Describe test-completion.
+        Collections can be lists of strings.
+        Clean up lazy-completion-table.
+        (Programmed Completion): Mention test-completion.
+        Clarify why lambda expressions are not accepted.
+        (Minibuffer Misc): Describe minibufferp.
+
 2003-07-14  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
         * buffers.texi (Killing Buffers): kill-buffer-hook is perm local.
diff --git a/lispref/files.texi b/lispref/files.texi
index c61c9ad11d2..c594f0a78a0 100644
--- a/lispref/files.texi
+++ b/lispref/files.texi
@@ -948,10 +948,12 @@ The function @code{file-truename} returns the truename of the file
 @var{filename}.  The argument must be an absolute file name.
 @end defun
 
-@defun file-chase-links filename
+@defun file-chase-links filename &optional limit
 This function follows symbolic links, starting with @var{filename},
 until it finds a file name which is not the name of a symbolic link.
-Then it returns that file name.
+Then it returns that file name.  If you specify a number for
+@var{limit}, then after chasing through that many links, the function
+just returns what it as even if that is still a symbolic link.
 @end defun
 
   To illustrate the difference between @code{file-chase-links} and