commit d995e9a762b0fd40746fb505967f82f48fd8a404
parent 9e74ade187fec4c18d34b2d1095f930f9c53e7a7
Author: Jordi Mallach <jordi@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:38:35 +0000
More formatting fixes for nanorc.5 from Jean-Philippe.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@1505 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ CVS code -
- THANKS:
- Added Laurentiu Buzdugan, for Romanian.
- Added Geir Helland, for Norwegian Bokmål.
-- nano.1:
+- nano.1, nanorc.5:
- Formatting improvements by Jean-Philippe Guérard.
GNU nano 1.2.1 - 2003.04.19
diff --git a/nanorc.5 b/nanorc.5
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@
.\"
.SH NAME
nanorc \- GNU nano's rcfile
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B /etc/nanorc
-.br
-.B $HOME/.nanorc
-.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents GNU \fBnano\fP's rcfile.
.PP
@@ -23,6 +18,12 @@ Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather
than just copying Pico's look and feel, \fBnano\fP also implements some
missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and
replace" and "go to line number".
+.PP
+The \fInanorc\fP file contains the default settings for \fBnano\fP.
+During startup, \fBnano\fP will first read its system-wide settings from
+.IR $SYSCONFDIR/nanorc ,
+and then user-specific settings from
+.IR $HOME/.nanorc .
.SH OPTIONS
The configuration file accepts a series of "set" and "unset" commands,
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@ The supported commands and arguments are:
Use auto-indentation.
.TP
\fBset/unset backup\fP
-Create backup files in filename~.
+Create backup files in
+.IR filename~ .
.TP
\fBset/unset const\fP
Constantly display the cursor position in the status bar.
@@ -87,10 +89,10 @@ The email-quote string, used to justify email-quoted paragraphs. This is
an "extended regular expression" if your system supports them, otherwise a
literal string. The default value is
- set quotestr "^([ \\t]*[|>:}#])+"
+ set quotestr "^([\ \\t]*[|>:}#])+"
-if you have regexps, otherwise set quotestr "> ". Note that '\\t' above
-stands for a literal Tab character.
+if you have regexps, otherwise set quotestr ">\ ". Note that '\\t'
+above stands for a literal Tab character.
.TP
\fBset/unset regexp\fP
Do regular expression searches by default.
@@ -113,7 +115,9 @@ than 0.
Save automatically on exit, don't prompt.
.TP
\fBset/unset historylog\fP
-Enable ~/.nano_history for saving and reading search/replace strings.
+Enable
+.I~/.nano_history
+for saving and reading search/replace strings.
.TP
\fBset/unset view\fP
Disallow file modification.
@@ -142,13 +146,24 @@ an initial \fIsr\fP is found will be highlighted until the first
instance of \fIer\fP.
\fI
+.SH FILES
+.TP
+.I $SYSCONFDIR/nanorc
+System-wide configuration file
+.TP
+.I $HOME/.nanorc
+Per-user configuration file
.SH SEE ALSO
.PD 0
.TP
\fBnano\fP(1)
.PP
-\fI/usr/share/doc/nano/examples/nanorc.sample\fP (or equivalent on your system)
+\fI/usr/share/doc/nano/examples/nanorc.sample\fP (or equivalent on your
+system)
.SH AUTHOR
-Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al (see AUTHORS and THANKS for
-details).
+Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al (see
+.I AUTHORS
+and
+.I THANKS
+for details).
This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@gnu.org>.
