* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-async-shell-command): Doc fix.

(dired-do-async-shell-command): Don't add `*' at the end of the
command (Bug#11815).
(dired-do-shell-command): Doc fix.
(dired-shell-stuff-it): Strip the trailing "&" and ";" if any.
Join the individual commands using either "&" or ";" as the
separator depending on the values of these trailing characters.
At the end re-add the trailing "&".  (Bug#10598)

* lisp/simple.el (async-shell-command): Sync the interactive spec with
`shell-command'.  Doc fix.
(shell-command): Doc fix.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index bf7880bd1ac..3435a839a74 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -274,13 +274,13 @@ The variable `diff-use-changed-face' defines whether to use
 the face `diff-changed', or `diff-removed' and `diff-added'
 to highlight changes in context diffs.
 
+** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
+on high color displays.
+
 ** Flymake uses fringe bitmaps to indicate errors and warnings.
 See flymake-fringe-indicator-position, flymake-error-bitmap and
 flymake-warning-bitmap.
 
-** Ediff now uses the same color scheme as Diff mode
-on high color displays.
-
 ** `sh-script'
 *** Pairing of parens/quotes uses electric-pair-mode instead of skeleton-pair.
 *** `sh-electric-here-document-mode' now controls auto-insertion of here-docs.
@@ -348,6 +348,12 @@ these commands now).
 ** erc will look up server/channel names via auth-source and use the
 channel keys found, if any.
 
+** Dired
+
+*** `dired-do-async-shell-command' executes each file sequentially
+if the command ends in `;' (when operating on multiple files).
+Othwerwise, it executes the command on each file in parallel.
+
 ** FFAP
 
 *** The option `ffap-url-unwrap-remote' can now be a list of strings,