* src/fileio.c (Ffile_executable_p): Doc tweak.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 9c5f2e90589..2283677a448 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-05-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * fileio.c (Ffile_executable_p): Doc tweak.
+
 2014-05-10  Jan Djärv  <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
 
         * xsettings.c (init_gsettings): Use g_settings_schema_source_lookup
diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index 8aaed3248a7..03519eda68d 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -2546,7 +2546,9 @@ Use `file-symlink-p' to test for such links.  */)
 
 DEFUN ("file-executable-p", Ffile_executable_p, Sfile_executable_p, 1, 1, 0,
        doc: /* Return t if FILENAME can be executed by you.
-For a directory, this means you can access files in that directory.  */)
+For a directory, this means you can access files in that directory.
+\(It is generally better to use `file-accessible-directory-p' for that
+purpose, though.)  */)
   (Lisp_Object filename)
 {
   Lisp_Object absname;