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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-04-14 17:50:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2019-04-14 17:50:12 +0300 |
| commit | 29b36a007ae04839a4c29c62b2b1ee7940a8539a (patch) | |
| tree | 442ecb6790bf78f470d68836306fb26fb097c37e | |
| parent | d209d646220bf1967e12d2de5c37b2be82e29835 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-29b36a007ae04839a4c29c62b2b1ee7940a8539a.tar.gz | |
Improve documentation of a recent commit
* etc/NEWS: Fix the description of 'shell-command-width'.
Mark the entry as not needing the manual update.
* lisp/simple.el (shell-command-width): Doc fix. (Bug#35055)
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/simple.el | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1066,8 +1066,9 @@ variable for remote shells. It still defaults to "/bin/sh". ** Single shell commands -*** 'shell-command-width' defines the number of output columns -for asynchronous shell command. +--- +*** 'shell-command-width' defines the number of display columns +available for output of asynchronous shell commands. ** Pcomplete diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el index 017ba510007..8647d0985f5 100644 --- a/lisp/simple.el +++ b/lisp/simple.el @@ -3352,9 +3352,10 @@ is output." :version "26.1") (defcustom shell-command-width nil - "Number of columns available for asynchronous shell command output. + "Number of display columns available for asynchronous shell command output. If nil, use the shell default number (usually 80 columns). -If a positive integer, use a fixed width for command output." +If a positive integer, tell the shell to use that number of columns for +command output." :type '(choice (const :tag "Use system limit" nil) (integer :tag "Fixed width" :value 80)) :group 'shell |