commit 0010cd444380ee961b838b8879d6ebf91a454de5
parent 7d6ffd9e7845d2210250aa7d863fb9dcef60089e
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:55:14 +0200
tweaks: slightly reword or rewrap some comments in the sample nanorc
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/sample.nanorc.in b/doc/sample.nanorc.in
@@ -78,18 +78,19 @@
## Fall back to slow libmagic to try and determine an applicable syntax.
# set magic
-## The opening and closing brackets that can be found by bracket
-## searches. They cannot contain blank characters. The former set must
-## come before the latter set, and both must be in the same order.
+## The opening and closing brackets that are found by a matching-bracket
+## search. This may not contain blank characters. The opening brackets
+## must come before the closing ones, and they must be in the same order.
# set matchbrackets "(<[{)>]}"
-## Suppress title bar and show file name and editor state at the bottom.
+## Suppress the title bar and show the filename plus a cursor-position
+## percentage in the space of the status bar.
# set minibar
## Enable mouse support, if available for your system. When enabled,
## mouse clicks can be used to place the cursor, set the mark (with a
-## double click), and execute shortcuts. The mouse will work in the X
-## Window System, and on the console when gpm is running.
+## double click), and execute shortcuts. The mouse will work in the
+## X Window System, and on the console when gpm is running.
# set mouse
## Switch on multiple file buffers (inserting a file will put it into
@@ -117,10 +118,9 @@
## Preserve the XON and XOFF keys (^Q and ^S).
# set preserve
-## The characters treated as closing punctuation when justifying
-## paragraphs. They cannot contain blank characters. Only closing
-## punctuation, optionally followed by closing brackets, can end
-## sentences.
+## The characters treated as closing punctuation when justifying paragraphs.
+## This may not contain blank characters. Only these closing punctuations,
+## optionally followed by closing brackets, can end sentences.
# set punct "!.?"
## Make status-bar messages disappear after 1 keystroke instead of after 20.
@@ -144,16 +144,16 @@
# set saveonexit
## (The old form of this option, 'set tempfile', is deprecated.)
-## Put the cursor on the highlighted item in the file browser, and show
-## the cursor in the help viewer; useful for people who use a braille
-## display and people with poor vision.
+## Put the cursor on the highlighted item in the file browser, and
+## show the cursor in the help viewer; useful for people who use a
+## braille display and people with poor vision.
# set showcursor
-## Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the
+## Make the Home key smarter: when Home is pressed anywhere but at the
## very beginning of non-whitespace characters on a line, the cursor
## will jump to that beginning (either forwards or backwards). If the
-## cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true
-## beginning of the line.
+## cursor is already at that position, it will jump to the true start
+## of the line (the left edge).
# set smarthome
## Spread overlong lines over multiple screen lines.
