From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:52:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (syms_of_callproc): Doc fixes.
X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/commitdiff_plain/57ca985523e398e8b7f3f2f125eda29552e2356f

(syms_of_callproc): Doc fixes.
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diff --git a/src/callproc.c b/src/callproc.c
index 625f35fc47..17c0ee96ee 100644
--- a/src/callproc.c
+++ b/src/callproc.c
@@ -1378,12 +1378,13 @@ Initialized from the SHELL environment variable.");
 Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).");
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("exec-directory", &Vexec_directory,
-    "Directory of architecture-dependent files that come with GNU Emacs,\n\
-especially executable programs intended for Emacs to invoke.");
+    "Directory for executables for Emacs to invoke.\n\
+More generally, this includes any architecture-dependent files\n\
+that are built and installed from the Emacs distribution.");
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("data-directory", &Vdata_directory,
-    "Directory of architecture-independent files that come with GNU Emacs,\n\
-intended for Emacs to use.");
+    "Directory of machine-independent files that come with GNU Emacs.\n\
+These are files intended for Emacs to use while it runs.");
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("doc-directory", &Vdoc_directory,
     "Directory containing the DOC file that comes with GNU Emacs.\n\