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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-08-09 19:13:53 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2020-08-09 19:13:53 +0300
commitec323389e75303c469b68a54b02bcd7123e2d60b (patch)
treea2e352ac463c13e1c7131b58260c55a25b4387a6 /lisp/dired-aux.el
parent1a845a672dc73c8e98e6cb9bb734616e168e60ba (diff)
downloademacs-ec323389e75303c469b68a54b02bcd7123e2d60b.tar.gz
Fix recently added documentation bits
* lisp/simple.el (async-shell-command-buffer) (async-shell-command, shell-command, shell-command-on-region): * lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-async-shell-command) (dired-do-shell-command): * doc/misc/tramp.texi (Remote processes): * doc/emacs/misc.texi (Single Shell): * etc/NEWS: Fix wording and punctuation of recently added documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/dired-aux.el')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index 84d8c36f45f..69b175339ab 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ are executed in the background on each file sequentially waiting
for each command to terminate before running the next command.
In shell syntax this means separating the individual commands with `;'.
-The output appears in the buffer `shell-command-buffer-name-async'."
+The output appears in the buffer named by `shell-command-buffer-name-async'."
(interactive
(let ((files (dired-get-marked-files t current-prefix-arg nil nil t)))
(list
@@ -726,16 +726,16 @@ it, write `*\"\"' in place of just `*'. This is equivalent to just
`*' in the shell, but avoids Dired's special handling.
If COMMAND ends in `&', `;', or `;&', it is executed in the
-background asynchronously, and the output appears in the buffer
-`shell-command-buffer-name-async'. When operating on multiple files and COMMAND
-ends in `&', the shell command is executed on each file in parallel.
-However, when COMMAND ends in `;' or `;&' then commands are executed
-in the background on each file sequentially waiting for each command
-to terminate before running the next command. You can also use
-`dired-do-async-shell-command' that automatically adds `&'.
+background asynchronously, and the output appears in the buffer named
+by `shell-command-buffer-name-async'. When operating on multiple files
+and COMMAND ends in `&', the shell command is executed on each file
+in parallel. However, when COMMAND ends in `;' or `;&', then commands
+are executed in the background on each file sequentially waiting for
+each command to terminate before running the next command. You can
+also use `dired-do-async-shell-command' that automatically adds `&'.
Otherwise, COMMAND is executed synchronously, and the output
-appears in the buffer `shell-command-buffer-name'.
+appears in the buffer named by `shell-command-buffer-name'.
This feature does not try to redisplay Dired buffers afterward, as
there's no telling what files COMMAND may have changed.