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@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ opens the file. Shell follows the same requested/effective/pending model as
Font. `Default shell` is the one used while no `Shell` is set: `$SHELL`, the
user's login shell, else `/bin/sh` (also when `$SHELL` names nothing
executable); an explicit `Shell` overrides it. `Shell <name or path>` is
-refused, `Shell: <it>: no executable by that name`, unless it names an
-executable (a bare name is looked for in the usual bin directories), and a
+refused unless it names an executable file (`Shell: no shell "x" (...)`, or
+`Shell: not a shell: /etc is a directory`; a bare name is looked for in the
+usual bin directories), as `Tty <shell>` is, and a
bare `Shell` goes back to the default. The root ctl reads `Shell <the one the
next terminal runs>`. `Shell
effective (last spawn)` is the executable the native host really chose after