Update test docs and output for linter tables checked

This makes some of the run-test output less misleading.

Also fix a minor shellcheck issue: "\*" and "\\*" are equivalent, but
the second one makes clear that the literal backslash is intentional.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/test/script/check-supported-tools-tables b/test/script/check-supported-tools-tables
index 65270029..f4305707 100755
--- a/test/script/check-supported-tools-tables
+++ b/test/script/check-supported-tools-tables
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 set -e
 set -u
 
-# This script compares the table of supported tools in both the README file
-# and the doc/ale.txt file, so we can complain if they don't match up.
+# This script compares the table of supported tools in both supported-tools.md
+# (for GitHub) and doc/ale-supported-languages-and-tools.txt (for vim), so we
+# can complain if they don't match up.
 
 doc_file="$(mktemp -t doc.XXXXXXXX)"
 doc_sorted_file="$(mktemp -t doc-sorted.XXXXXXXX)"
diff --git a/test/script/custom-checks b/test/script/custom-checks
index 20dbfb80..ca9069e4 100755
--- a/test/script/custom-checks
+++ b/test/script/custom-checks
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ tag_regex='[gb]\?:\?\(ale\|ALE\)[a-zA-Z_\-]\+'
 # Grep for tags and references, and complain if we find a reference without
 # a tag for the reference. Only our tags will be included.
 diff -u \
-    <(grep --exclude=tags -roh "\*$tag_regex\*" doc | sort -u | sed 's/*//g') \
+    <(grep --exclude=tags -roh "\\*$tag_regex\\*" doc | sort -u | sed 's/*//g') \
     <(grep --exclude=tags -roh "|$tag_regex|" doc | sort -u | sed 's/|//g') \
     | grep '^+[^+]' && exit_code=1
 
 echo '========================================'
-echo 'diff README.md and doc/ale.txt tables'
+echo 'diff supported-tools.md and doc/ale-supported-languages-and-tools.txt tables'
 echo '========================================'
 echo 'Differences follow:'
 echo