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26.3; Doc of `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'

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Message #19 received at 63875-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 63875-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: bug#63875: 26.3; Doc of
 `dired-guess-shell-alist-user'
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:24:39 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: "63875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <63875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 16:21:55 +0000
> 
> > > The doc string doesn't say what REGEXP is, e.g., what it's intended to
> > > match.  It should say that up front and explicitly.
> > 
> > ???The doc string says:
> > 
> >   Each element of this list looks like
> > 
> >       (REGEXP COMMAND...)
> > 
> >   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.
> > 
> > "REGEXP matches the file to be processed".  What else needs to be
> > said?
> 
> Apologies.  The bug report was from Emacs 26.  I see
> now that the doc string was improved since then to
> what you quote.
> 
> In Emacs 26, it says only this:
> 
>  Each element of this list looks like
> 
>      (REGEXP COMMAND...)
> 
>  where each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp
>  expression that evaluates to a string.
> 
> Feel free to close the bug.  Thx.

Closing.

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