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26; doc string of `write-file`

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 33339-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33339: 26; doc string of `write-file`
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:55:25 -0800 (PST)

> >  "If you specify just a directory name as FILENAME, that means to use
> >   the default file name but in that directory.  You can also yank
> >   the default file name into the minibuffer to edit it, using M-n."
> >
> > "The default file name" is undefined.
> 
> It is defined by the very next paragraph of the doc string.

Yes, things are out of order.

> I made it even more clear.

Thank you.

> > To start with, the doc string should say that it prompts for a file
> > name.  If the current buffer is visiting a file then that file's name
> > is the default file name for reading.  Otherwise the buffer name is the
> > default file name for reading.
> 
> This is incorrect when the user specifies just the directory name at
> the prompt.  I clarified that only the base name is taken from the
> buffer.

Thanks.

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