6 files changed, 11 insertions, 88 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 3b7ab6527aa..d2f44eabb0e 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-02-09  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * msdog.texi (Text and Binary): Delete the description of
+        file-name-buffer-file-type-alist.
+
 2013-01-19  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
         * trouble.texi (Crashing): Suggest -p for newer addr2line.  (Bug#13445)
diff --git a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
index 2c22c89a113..0f01958b51c 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/msdog.texi
@@ -218,29 +218,6 @@ set conversion, only end-of-line conversion.  Essentially, it directs
 Emacs to create new files with the Unix-style convention of using
 newline at the end of a line.  @xref{Coding Systems}.
 
-@vindex file-name-buffer-file-type-alist
-@cindex binary files, on MS-DOS/MS-Windows
-  Some kinds of files should not be converted at all, because their
-contents are not really text.  Therefore, Emacs on MS-Windows distinguishes
-certain files as @dfn{binary files}.  (This distinction is not part of
-MS-Windows; it is made by Emacs only.)  Binary files include executable
-programs, compressed archives, etc.  Emacs uses the file name to decide
-whether to treat a file as binary: the variable
-@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} defines the file-name patterns
-that indicate binary files.  If a file name matches one of the patterns
-for binary files (those whose associations are of the type
-@code{(@var{pattern} . t)}, Emacs reads and writes that file using the
-@code{no-conversion} coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}) which turns
-off @emph{all} coding-system conversions, not only the EOL conversion.
-@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} also includes file-name patterns
-for files which are known to be Windows-style text files with
-carriage-return linefeed EOL format, such as @file{CONFIG.SYS}; Emacs
-always writes those files with Windows-style EOLs.
-
-  If a file that belongs to an untranslated file system matches one of
-the file-name patterns in @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}, the
-EOL conversion is determined by @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}.
-
 @node Windows Files
 @section File Names on MS-Windows
 @cindex file names on MS-Windows
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index 7c444a038af..90b2349387f 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-02-09  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * modes.texi (%-Constructs): Remove the description of %t.
+
+        * nonascii.texi (MS-DOS File Types): Delete node.
+
 2013-02-08  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * keymaps.texi (Active Keymaps, Searching Keymaps):
diff --git a/doc/lispref/elisp.texi b/doc/lispref/elisp.texi
index 127b22086d0..3d1c4cf577d 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/elisp.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/elisp.texi
@@ -1209,8 +1209,6 @@ Coding Systems
                                     for a single file operation.
 * Explicit Encoding::       Encoding or decoding text without doing I/O.
 * Terminal I/O Encoding::   Use of encoding for terminal I/O.
-* MS-DOS File Types::       How DOS "text" and "binary" files
-                                relate to coding systems.
 
 Searching and Matching
 
diff --git a/doc/lispref/modes.texi b/doc/lispref/modes.texi
index 29aba877ba2..71ce2bb9271 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/modes.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/modes.texi
@@ -2150,11 +2150,6 @@ visible on screen; or @samp{Bottom} or @samp{All}.
 The status of the subprocess belonging to the current buffer, obtained with
 @code{process-status}.  @xref{Process Information}.
 
-@item %t
-Whether the visited file is a text file or a binary file.  This is a
-meaningful distinction only on certain operating systems (@pxref{MS-DOS
-File Types}).
-
 @item %z
 The mnemonics of keyboard, terminal, and buffer coding systems.
 
diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
index 9ad68be60cb..e462c3b4ce4 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi
@@ -855,8 +855,6 @@ documented here.
                                     for a single file operation.
 * Explicit Encoding::           Encoding or decoding text without doing I/O.
 * Terminal I/O Encoding::       Use of encoding for terminal I/O.
-* MS-DOS File Types::           How DOS "text" and "binary" files
-                                    relate to coding systems.
 @end menu
 
 @node Coding System Basics
@@ -1775,62 +1773,6 @@ for encoding terminal output from @var{terminal}.  If
 @code{nil}, that means the currently selected frame's terminal.
 @end deffn
 
-@node MS-DOS File Types
-@subsection MS-DOS File Types
-@cindex DOS file types
-@cindex MS-DOS file types
-@cindex Windows file types
-@cindex file types on MS-DOS and Windows
-@cindex text files and binary files
-@cindex binary files and text files
-
-  On MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows, Emacs guesses the appropriate
-end-of-line conversion for a file by looking at the file's name.  This
-feature classifies files as @dfn{text files} and @dfn{binary files}.  By
-``binary file'' we mean a file of literal byte values that are not
-necessarily meant to be characters; Emacs does no end-of-line conversion
-and no character code conversion for them.  On the other hand, the bytes
-in a text file are intended to represent characters; when you create a
-new file whose name implies that it is a text file, Emacs uses DOS
-end-of-line conversion.
-
-@defvar buffer-file-type
-This variable, automatically buffer-local in each buffer, records the
-file type of the buffer's visited file.  When a buffer does not specify
-a coding system with @code{buffer-file-coding-system}, this variable is
-used to determine which coding system to use when writing the contents
-of the buffer.  It should be @code{nil} for text, @code{t} for binary.
-If it is @code{t}, the coding system is @code{no-conversion}.
-Otherwise, @code{undecided-dos} is used.
-
-Normally this variable is set by visiting a file; it is set to
-@code{nil} if the file was visited without any actual conversion.
-
-Its default value is used to decide how to handle files for which
-@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} says nothing about the type:
-If the default value is non-@code{nil}, then these files are treated as
-binary: the coding system @code{no-conversion} is used.  Otherwise,
-nothing special is done for them---the coding system is deduced solely
-from the file contents, in the usual Emacs fashion.
-@end defvar
-
-@defopt file-name-buffer-file-type-alist
-This variable holds an alist for recognizing text and binary files.
-Each element has the form (@var{regexp} . @var{type}), where
-@var{regexp} is matched against the file name, and @var{type} may be
-@code{nil} for text, @code{t} for binary, or a function to call to
-compute which.  If it is a function, then it is called with a single
-argument (the file name) and should return @code{t} or @code{nil}.
-
-When running on MS-DOS or MS-Windows, Emacs checks this alist to decide
-which coding system to use when reading a file.  For a text file,
-@code{undecided-dos} is used.  For a binary file, @code{no-conversion}
-is used.
-
-If no element in this alist matches a given file name, then
-the default value of @code{buffer-file-type} says how to treat the file.
-@end defopt
-
 @node Input Methods
 @section Input Methods
 @cindex input methods