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)

diff --git a/doc/misc/dired-x.texi b/doc/misc/dired-x.texi
index d7f3586675c4b0eab9ff7e6beadb90a3dfc58238..60915e299627f009b08bc3175b382ac91e60c957 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/misc/dired-x.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/dired-x.texi
@@ -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