DOC: clarify wording

tacaswell · jklymak · web-flow · commit dee56149257a · 2022-12-04T17:12:04.000-05:00
Co-authored-by: Jody Klymak &lt;jklymak@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -2614,9 +2614,10 @@ def show(self, warn=True):
             may only be shown briefly or not shown at all if you or your
             environment are not managing an event loop.
 
-            Proper use cases for `.Figure.show` include running this from a GUI
+            Use cases for `.Figure.show` include running this from a GUI
             application (where there is persistently an event loop running) or
-            from a shell with an input hook configured (IPython will do this).
+            from a shell, like IPython, that install an input hook to allow the interactive 
+            shell to accept input while the figure is also being shown and interactive.
             Some, but not all, GUI toolkits will register an input hook on
             import.  See :ref:`cp_integration` for more details.
 
