Improve sentence in docs vis passing multiple values in an environmen…

…t variable (#4677) * Improve repeated command line options sentence * Add trivial news entry * Update user_guide.rst * Shorten sentence
pypa · Sep 29, 2017 · e3288bb · e3288bb
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diff --git a/docs/user_guide.rst b/docs/user_guide.rst
@@ -421,8 +421,8 @@ This is the same as passing the option to pip directly::
 
     pip --default-timeout=60 [...]
 
-To set options that can be set multiple times on the command line, just add
-spaces in between values. For example::
+For command line options which can be repeated, use a space to separate
+multiple values. For example::
 
     export PIP_FIND_LINKS="http://mirror1.example.com http://mirror2.example.com"
 

diff --git a/news/4565.trivial b/news/4565.trivial
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Improve sentence in docs describing how to put multiple values into a
+single environment variable in those cases where a command line option
+may be repeated.