commit d9cae81a0e51de9e5edc257179edd01f00e553e7
parent 83ee1feda44fc36fe0958c8702e29bccdc8c439f
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:27:15 +0200
docs: mention the existence of the toggles in the man page
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man/nano.1 b/doc/man/nano.1
@@ -257,6 +257,14 @@ separately (e.g.\& 'nano \-wS \-$').
.BR \-a ", " \-b ", " \-e ", " \-f ", " \-g ", " \-j
Ignored, for compatibility with Pico.
+.SH TOGGLES
+Many of the above options can be switched on and off also while
+\fBnano\fR is running. For example, \fBM\-L\fR toggles the
+hard-wrapping of long lines, \fBM\-$\fR toggles soft-wrapping,
+\fBM\-#\fR toggles line numbers, \fBM\-P\fR the visibility of
+whitespace, \fBM\-M\fR the mouse, and \fBM\-X\fR the help lines.
+See at the end of the \fB^G\fR help text for a complete list.
+
.SH INITIALIZATION FILE
\fBnano\fP will read initialization files in the following order:
the system's \fBnanorc\fP (if it exists), and then the user's