Minor clarifications for documentation for the set builtin

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\subsection set-synopsis Synopsis
<code>set [OPTIONS] [VARIABLE_NAME [VALUES...]]</code>
or
<code>set [OPTIONS] [VARIABLE_NAME[INDICES]... [VALUES...]]</code>
The <code>set</code> builtin causes fish to assign the variable <code>VARIABLE_NAME</code> the values <code>VALUES...</code>.
\subsection set-description Description
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If the variable name is one or more array elements, such as
<code>PATH[1 3 7]</code>, only those array elements specified will be
changed.
changed. When array indices are specified to set, multiple arguments
may be used to specify additional indexes, e.g. <code>set PATH[1]
PATH[4] /bin /sbin</code>.
The set command requires all switch arguments to come before any
non-switch arguments. For example, <code>set flags -l</code> will have