# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>
# Date 1650556351 -7200
# Node ID 7d99816e9709c6fee73f5635b9c6f84fedbee7bc
# Parent  fe898ae23e0e6ff113d9d51e60b2bd974531c7f5
ls.m: Improve wording in docstring (bug #62282).

diff -r fe898ae23e0e -r 7d99816e9709 scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m	Tue Apr 19 15:09:27 2022 -0700
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m	Thu Apr 21 17:52:31 2022 +0200
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 ## command.  Available @var{options} may vary from system to system.
 ##
 ## Filenames are subject to shell expansion if they contain any wildcard
-## characters @samp{*}, @samp{?}, @samp{[]}.  To find a literal example of a
-## wildcard character the wildcard must be escaped using the backslash operator
-## @samp{\}.
+## characters @samp{*}, @samp{?}, @samp{[]}.  If these wildcard characters are
+## escaped with a backslash @samp{\} (e.g., @samp{\*}), they aren't treated as
+## wildcards but as the corresponding literal character.
 ##
 ## If the optional output @var{list} is requested then @code{ls} returns a
 ## character array with one row for each file/directory name.