From 37d638a02c8b8ba653d9038ab56384ea16275e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:08:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Slightly improving the formatting and wording of two man pages. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@4634 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8 --- ChangeLog | 1 + doc/man/nano.1 | 22 +++++++++++----------- doc/man/nanorc.5 | 10 +++++----- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 46a50977..e81c4e76 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * src/move.c (do_down) - Trim some redundant code, and correct the scrolling behaviour when softwrap is off -- the construct (amount ? amount : 1) wasn't doing what I intended. + * doc/man/nano{.1,rc.5} - Slightly improve formatting and wording. 2014-03-01 Chris Allegretta * global.c (shortcut_init) - fix an issue with the split diff --git a/doc/man/nano.1 b/doc/man/nano.1 index 3cf8ec94..f2ddbd4c 100644 --- a/doc/man/nano.1 +++ b/doc/man/nano.1 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ .\" . .\" .\" $Id$ -.TH NANO 1 "version 2.2.0" "November 30, 2009" +.TH NANO 1 "version 2.3.3" "March 2014" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ nano \- Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone .SH SYNOPSIS .B nano -.I [OPTIONS]\ [[\+LINE,COLUMN]\ FILE]... +.RI [ options "] [[\+" line , column "]\ " file "]..." .br .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ replace" and "go to line and column number". .SH OPTIONS .TP -.B \+\fILINE\fP,\fICOLUMN\fP -Places cursor at line number \fILINE\fP and column number \fICOLUMN\fP +.B \+\fIline\fP,\fIcolumn\fP +Places the cursor on line number \fIline\fP and at column number \fIcolumn\fP (at least one of which must be specified) on startup, instead of the -default of line 1, column 1. +default line 1, column 1. .TP .B \-? -Same as \fB-h (\-\-help)\fP. +Same as \fB\-h (\-\-help)\fP. .TP .B \-A (\-\-smarthome) Make the Home key smarter. When Home is pressed anywhere but at the @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Set the size (width) of a tab to \fIcols\fP columns. The value of .TP .B \-U (\-\-quickblank) Do quick statusbar blanking. Statusbar messages will disappear after 1 -keystroke instead of 25. Note that \fB-c\fP overrides this. +keystroke instead of 25. Note that \fB\-c\fP overrides this. .TP .B \-V (\-\-version) Show the current version number and exit. @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Specify a specific syntax highlighting from the \fInanorc\fP to use, if available. .TP .B \-c (\-\-const) -Constantly show the cursor position. Note that this overrides \fB-U\fP. +Constantly show the cursor position. Note that this overrides \fB\-U\fP. .TP .B \-d (\-\-rebinddelete) Interpret the Delete key differently so that both Backspace and Delete @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ work properly. You should only need to use this option if Backspace acts like Delete on your system. .TP .B \-h (\-\-help) -Show a summary of command line options and exit. +Show a summary of the available command-line options and exit. .TP .B \-i (\-\-autoindent) Indent new lines to the previous line's indentation. Useful when @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Preserve the XON and XOFF sequences (^Q and ^S) so they will be caught by the terminal. .TP .B \-q (\-\-quiet) -Do not report errors in the \fInanorc\fP file and ask them to be +Do not report errors in the \fInanorc\fP file nor ask them to be acknowledged by pressing Enter at startup. .TP .B \-r \fIcols\fP (\-\-fill=\fIcols\fP) @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ is resized. The default value is \-8. Enable alternative spell checker command. .TP .B \-t (\-\-tempfile) -Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico's \fB-t\fP +Always save changed buffer without prompting. Same as Pico's \fB\-t\fP option. .TP .B \-u (\-\-undo) diff --git a/doc/man/nanorc.5 b/doc/man/nanorc.5 index f499ff6a..a4beebd8 100644 --- a/doc/man/nanorc.5 +++ b/doc/man/nanorc.5 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ .\" . .\" .\" $Id$ -.TH NANORC 5 "version 2.3.2" "February 2014 +.TH NANORC 5 "version 2.3.3" "March 2014" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .SH NAME @@ -246,14 +246,14 @@ special: it takes no \fIfileregex\fP, and applies to files that don't match any other syntax's \fIfileregex\fP. .TP .B linter \fIprogram\fP [\fIargs\fP ... ] -For the currently defined syntax, add the following command -to invoke the linter (overrides the speller function when -defined. +For the currently defined syntax, use the given \fIprogram\fR +to invoke the linter (this overrides the speller function when +defined). .TP .B magic ["\fIregex\fP" ... ] For the currently defined syntax, add one or more regexes which will be compared against the \fBmagic\fP database when attempting -to determine which highlighting rules to use for a given file. This +to determine which highlighting rules to use for a given file. This functionality only works when \fBlibmagic\fP is installed on the system and will be silently ignored otherwise. .TP -- 2.39.5