Improve --file-name help text, closes #1109

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/bat/clap_app.rs b/src/bin/bat/clap_app.rs
index 385d017b..894c1bfb 100644
--- a/src/bin/bat/clap_app.rs
+++ b/src/bin/bat/clap_app.rs
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ pub fn build_app(interactive_output: bool) -> ClapApp<'static, 'static> {
                 .long_help(
                     "Specify the name to display for a file. Useful when piping \
                             data to bat from STDIN when bat does not otherwise know \
-                            the filename.",
+                            the filename. Note that the provided file name is also \
+                            used for syntax detection.",
                 ),
         );