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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-09-19 10:08:03 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2018-09-19 10:08:03 +0300
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Improve wording of last change in dired-x.texi
* doc/misc/dired-x.texi (Shell Command Guessing): Clarify wording in description of 'dired-guess-shell-alist-user'. Avoid passive tense. (Bug#32733)
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@@ -593,7 +593,9 @@ 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