[bug#39752] [PATCH 3/4] doc: Expand the part on special action 'doc'.

[Brice Waegeneire]

* doc/shepherd.texi (Jump start): Rewrite paragraph about special action
'doc'.
---
 doc/shepherd.texi | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/shepherd.texi b/doc/shepherd.texi
index 834d47a..7c7e5e5 100644
--- a/doc/shepherd.texi
+++ b/doc/shepherd.texi
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 @copying
 Copyright @copyright{} @value{OLD-YEARS} Wolfgang J@"ahrling@*
 Copyright @copyright{} @value{NEW-YEARS} Ludovic Courtès
+Copyright @copyright{} @value{2020} Brice Waegeneire
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -273,11 +274,6 @@ about the service, like what it provides, what it depends 
on and with which
 other services it conflicts (because they provide a virtual service that is
 also provided by that particular service).
 
-Another special action is @code{list-actions}, which displays a list
-of the additional actions a service provides; obviously, it can also
-be called when the service is not running.  Services cannot provide
-their own implementation of @code{list-actions}.
-
 A special service is @code{root}, which is used for controlling the
 Shepherd itself.  You can also reference to this service as
 @code{shepherd}.  It implements various actions.  For example, the
@@ -293,6 +289,20 @@ to load arbitrary code into the Shepherd at runtime, like 
this:
 herd load shepherd ~/additional-services.scm
 @end example
 
+In the same vein the special action @code{doc} describes it's service
+when called without an argument or describes a service-specific action
+when called with the action as the additional arguments. You can even
+get the list of the service-specific actions a service provides when
+using with the additional argument @code{list-actions}.
+@example
+$ herd doc root
+The root service is used to operate on shepherd itself.
+$ herd doc root list-actions
+root (help status halt power-off load eval unload reload daemonize persistency 
no-persistency cd restart)
+$ herd doc root action power-off
+power-off: Halt the system and turn it off.
+@end example
+
 This is enough now about the @command{herd} and @command{shepherd} programs, we
 will now take a look at how to configure the Shepherd.  In the configuration
 file, we need mainly the definition of services.  We can also do
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2.25.0