Subject: Re: bug#33869: 26.1; function locate-dominating-file not documented in elisp manual

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:24:38 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The function locate-dominating-file appears to be missing from the elisp
>> manual. 

[...]

> If we cannot come up with a phrase or a list of phrases for which
> locate-dominating-file might be the hit one looks for, I don't see how
> adding this to the ELisp manual could improve the discoverability.

I've now documented it right below directory-files-recursively and
cindexed them both with (respectively)

@cindex recursing upwards in directories

@cindex recursing downwards in directories

since they are kinda opposites of each other.

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