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[docs/enter] Warn about enter opening multiple shells (#1645)

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Opening a JSON with a top-level list, opens one shell per list element. This can be extremely confusing to unexpected users.
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## Note
If you `enter` a JSON file with multiple a top-level list, this will open one new shell for each list element.
```shell
/private/tmp> printf "1\\n2\\n3\\n" | lines | save foo.json
/private/tmp> enter foo.json
/> shells
───┬────────┬─────────────────────────┬──────────────
# │ active │ name │ path
───┼────────┼─────────────────────────┼──────────────
0 │ │ filesystem │ /private/tmp
1 │ │ {/private/tmp/foo.json} │ /
2 │ │ {/private/tmp/foo.json} │ /
3 │ X │ {/private/tmp/foo.json} │ /
───┴────────┴─────────────────────────┴──────────────
/>
```