From: Jordi Mallach Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 02:46:02 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Documented nano.saves and other small changes to manpage. X-Git-Tag: v0.9.22~8 X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7ad75adb36d3c90020f32eade3038f18ebf4a7c;p=nano.git Documented nano.saves and other small changes to manpage. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@367 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8 --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 570b1b51..b4ba2efe 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ CVS code - the klugey unjustify code. - nano.1, nano.1.html: - Updated date on pages because of -p changes. + - Added "NOTES" section, where I explain what nano.save & friends + are. + - Added a copyright notice for the manpage, under the GPL. + - Other minor changes. - nano.c: do_justify() - Wrote unjustify code. Borrows cutbuffer and stores the unjustified diff --git a/nano.1 b/nano.1 index 940fe47b..55eeed15 100644 --- a/nano.1 +++ b/nano.1 @@ -1,20 +1,16 @@ -.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" nano.1 is copyright 1999-2000 by +.\" Chris Allegretta +.\" +.\" This is free documentation, see the latest version of the GNU General +.\" Public License for copying conditions. There is NO warranty. +.\" .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) -.TH NANO 1 "November 27, 2000" +.TH NANO 1 "December 2, 2000" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" -.\" Some roff macros, for reference: -.\" .nh disable hyphenation -.\" .hy enable hyphenation -.\" .ad l left justify -.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins -.\" .nf disable filling -.\" .fi enable filling -.\" .br insert line break -.\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines -.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico Clone .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -29,14 +25,12 @@ command. .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. -\fBnano\fP was originally known as TIP (TIP Isn't Pico). It is a small, -free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor -included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than just copying Pico's -look and feel, +\fBnano\fP is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace +Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather +than just copying Pico's look and feel, .B nano -also implements some missing (or disabled by -default) features in Pico, such as "search and replace" and "goto line -number". +also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, +such as "search and replace" and "goto line number". .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-T (\-\-tabsize) @@ -92,16 +86,27 @@ Enable suspend ability. .TP .B \+LINE Places cursor at LINE on startup. +.SH NOTES +Nano will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some cases. +Mainly, this will happen if Nano recieves a SIGHUP or runs out of +memory, when it will write the buffer into a file named "nano.save" if the +buffer didn't have a name already, or will add a ".save" suffix to the +current finename. Nano will \fBnot\fP follow symbolic links that are not +owned by the real userid of the process. .SH BUGS Please send any comments or bug reports to +.br .B nano@nano-editor.org. +.br The nano mailing list is available from +.br .B nano-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a subject of "subscribe". .SH HOMEPAGE http://www.nano-editor.org .SH AUTHOR -Chris Allegretta , et al. This manual page was -originally written by Jordi Mallach , for the Debian -GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). +Chris Allegretta , et al (see AUTHORS for details). +This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach +, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be +used by others).