Assume dired-guess is now always available

* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-read-shell-command): Use
dired-guess-shell-command unconditionally, as it is now always
available.
(dired-do-shell-command): Doc fix; dired-guess is always available.
* lisp/dired.el (dired-do-man): Don't require dired-x.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index 426273f65e8..94b2baf72d0 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -780,20 +780,16 @@ which is replaced by the value returned by `dired-mark-prompt',
 with ARG and FILES as its arguments.  FILES should be a list of
 file names.  The result is used as the prompt.
 
-This normally reads using `read-shell-command', but if the
-`dired-x' package is loaded, use `dired-guess-shell-command' to
-offer a smarter default choice of shell command."
+Use `dired-guess-shell-command' to offer a smarter default choice
+of shell command."
   (minibuffer-with-setup-hook
       (lambda ()
         (setq-local dired-aux-files files)
         (setq-local minibuffer-default-add-function
                     #'dired-minibuffer-default-add-shell-commands))
     (setq prompt (format prompt (dired-mark-prompt arg files)))
-    (if (functionp 'dired-guess-shell-command)
-        (dired-mark-pop-up nil 'shell files
-                           'dired-guess-shell-command prompt files)
-      (dired-mark-pop-up nil 'shell files
-                         'read-shell-command prompt nil nil))))
+    (dired-mark-pop-up nil 'shell files
+                       'dired-guess-shell-command prompt files)))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defcustom dired-confirm-shell-command t
@@ -882,7 +878,7 @@ In a noninteractive call (from Lisp code), you must specify
 the list of file names explicitly with the FILE-LIST argument, which
 can be produced by `dired-get-marked-files', for example.
 
-If `dired-x' is loaded, `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' and
+`dired-guess-shell-alist-default' and
 `dired-guess-shell-alist-user' are consulted when the user is
 prompted for the shell command to use interactively.
 
diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 799a9f4716b..01098fdf891 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -4919,16 +4919,12 @@ Interactively with prefix argument, read FILE-NAME."
 ;;; Miscellaneous commands
 
 (declare-function Man-getpage-in-background "man" (topic))
-(declare-function dired-guess-shell-command "dired-x" (prompt files))
 (defvar manual-program) ; from man.el
 
 (defun dired-do-man ()
   "In Dired, run `man' on this file."
   (interactive nil dired-mode)
   (require 'man)
-  ;; FIXME: Move `dired-guess-shell-command' to dired.el to remove the
-  ;;        need for requiring `dired-x'.
-  (require 'dired-x)
   (let* ((file (dired-get-file-for-visit))
          (manual-program (string-replace "*" "%s"
                                          (dired-guess-shell-command