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authorLars Ingebrigtsen2021-05-29 07:49:19 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen2021-05-29 07:49:19 +0200
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Improve the dired-guess-shell-alist-user doc string
* lisp/dired-x.el (dired-guess-shell-alist-user): Document how REGEXP is used (bug#17251).
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diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el
index 56f7f4724ac..6619a391673 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-x.el
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@@ -941,10 +941,15 @@ Each element of this list looks like
941 941
942 (REGEXP COMMAND...) 942 (REGEXP COMMAND...)
943 943
944where each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp expression that evaluates 944COMMAND will be used if REGEXP matches the file to be processed.
945If several files are to be processed, REGEXP has to match all the
946files.
947
948Each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp expression that evaluates
945to a string. If this expression needs to consult the name of the file for 949to a string. If this expression needs to consult the name of the file for
946which the shell commands are being requested, it can access that file name 950which the shell commands are being requested, it can access that file name
947as the variable `file'. 951as the variable `file'.
952
948If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default 953If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default
949and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved 954and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved
950with \\[previous-history-element] (M-p) . 955with \\[previous-history-element] (M-p) .