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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2018-09-20 07:50:34 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2018-09-20 07:50:34 -0700
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Merge from origin/emacs-26
d28d54c (origin/emacs-26) More accurate docs for 'text-char-description' b3baf99 Document synchronous behavior of eshell/make (Bug#32513) 98544ea Fix bs-show with wide characters (Bug#17822) 85af51b Improve Custom menu labels for 2 options 72a2a36 Improve wording of last change in dired-x.texi d4fa83b Fix GnuTLS test suite with GnuTLS versions 3.4.x b5bee6b Fix build with gnutls versions 3.0 to 3.2 (Bug#32446) 67eb80e ; * etc/enriched.txt (hanging-indents): Remove extra indent. c71cfb7 Fix the Bubbles game on TTY frames 3bbf21b Add choice to reshow certificate information (Bug#31877) 6f2c471 * src/alloc.c (Fbool_vector, Flist, Fvector): Doc tweak. 39eecb3 * src/alloc.c (vector): Fix grammatical error in doc string: ...
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@@ -521,7 +521,9 @@ where each @var{command} can either be a string or a Lisp expression
that evaluates to a string. If several commands are given, all of
them will temporarily be pushed onto the history.
-A @samp{*} in the shell command is replaced by the file name.
+A @samp{*} in the shell command stands for the file name that matched
+@var{regexp}. When Emacs invokes the @var{command}, it replaces each
+instance of @samp{*} with the matched file name.
You can set this variable in your @file{~/.emacs}. For example,
to add rules for @samp{.foo} and @samp{.bar} file extensions, write