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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2021-05-29 07:49:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2021-05-29 07:49:19 +0200 |
| commit | 2ee7e8a129ea0838ed2de5ae3531c3b21a8cb2c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ff9b38a0aa7921a9f2271b688763481f20dfabb /lisp/dired-x.el | |
| parent | 22520811e2054df1d7a61691faa2c203bf3bbda0 (diff) | |
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Improve the dired-guess-shell-alist-user doc string
* lisp/dired-x.el (dired-guess-shell-alist-user): Document how
REGEXP is used (bug#17251).
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diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el index 56f7f4724ac..6619a391673 100644 --- a/lisp/dired-x.el +++ b/lisp/dired-x.el @@ -941,10 +941,15 @@ Each element of this list looks like (REGEXP COMMAND...) -where each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp expression that evaluates +COMMAND will be used if REGEXP matches the file to be processed. +If several files are to be processed, REGEXP has to match all the +files. + +Each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp expression that evaluates to a string. If this expression needs to consult the name of the file for which the shell commands are being requested, it can access that file name as the variable `file'. + If several COMMANDs are given, the first one will be the default and the rest will be added temporarily to the history and can be retrieved with \\[previous-history-element] (M-p) . |