GNU bug report logs - #57228
27.2; Dired documentation bug?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrew Eggenberger <andrew.eggenberger <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:34:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andrew Eggenberger <andrew.eggenberger <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 57228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57228: 27.2; Dired documentation bug?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:21:01 +0200

Andrew Eggenberger <andrew.eggenberger <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The documentation for the function dired-do-shell-command says it will
> consult two variables: `dired-guess-shell-alist-default' and
> `dired-guess-shell-alist-user' when the user is
> prompted for the shell command to use interactively, but these variables
> are part of the dired-x package, which is not loaded by default. Perhaps
> "If `dired-x' is loaded" or something similar should be added to that
> part of the documentation.

Yup.  I've now done this in Emacs 29.
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