More clarification that you need to use lazy = FALSE if you are try…

…ing to write to the same file you read from Fixes #1273
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 #' @param lazy Read values lazily? By default the file is initially only
 #'   indexed and the values are read lazily when accessed. Lazy reading is
 #'   useful interactively, particularly if you are only interested in a subset
-#'   of the full dataset. Note, lazy reading on windows will lock the file
-#'   until all the data has been read from it, if you run into this issue set
-#'   `lazy = FALSE`.
+#'   of the full dataset. *Note*, if you later write to the same file you read
+#'   from you need to set `lazy = FALSE`. On Windows the file will be locked
+#'   and on other systems the memory map will become invalid.
 #' @param num_threads The number of processing threads to use for initial
 #'   parsing and lazy reading of data. If your data contains newlines within
 #'   fields the parser should automatically detect this and fall back to using

diff --git a/man/read_delim.Rd b/man/read_delim.Rd
diff --git a/man/read_fwf.Rd b/man/read_fwf.Rd
diff --git a/man/read_lines.Rd b/man/read_lines.Rd
diff --git a/man/spec_delim.Rd b/man/spec_delim.Rd