From 498e13df30e0454d2b3b1d2597861c48b0b38640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Lawrence Ramsey Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:56:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document the use of the SPELL environment variable git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@1799 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8 --- ChangeLog | 2 ++ doc/man/nano.1 | 6 +++++- doc/texinfo/nano.texi | 7 ++++--- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6eb75ad7..7e85e542 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ CVS code - - Document restricted mode. (IO ERROR) DLR: Add minor modifications to account for the above changes. - Document the smart home key option. (DLR) + - Document the use of the SPELL environment variable. (DLR) - nanorc.5: - Document the smart home key option. (DLR) - Document the whitespace option. (DLR, adapted from @@ -413,6 +414,7 @@ CVS code - sorting/uniqueness filtering for the internal spell chacker were added in nano 1.1.99pre1. (DLR) - Document the smart home key option. (DLR) + - Document the use of the SPELL environment variable. (DLR) - nanorc.sample: - Add missing mouse entry, and update the nanorc sample regexes to account for the backupdir and mouse options. (DLR) diff --git a/doc/man/nano.1 b/doc/man/nano.1 index 605b6831..cad8a159 100644 --- a/doc/man/nano.1 +++ b/doc/man/nano.1 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Show the current version number and author. .TP .B \-Y \fIstr\fP (\-\-syntax=\fIstr\fP) Specify a specific syntax highlighting from the -.I .nanorc +.I nanorc to use, if available. .TP .B \-Z (\-\-restricted) @@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ and the example file \fBnanorc.sample\fP which should be provided with \fBnano\fP. .SH NOTES +If no alternative spell checker command is specified on the command +line or in one of the nanorc files, \fBnano\fP will check the +\fBSPELL\fP environment variable for one. + \fBnano\fP will try to dump the buffer into an emergency file in some cases. Mainly, this will happen if \fBnano\fP receives a SIGHUP or SIGTERM or runs out of memory, when it will write the buffer into a file diff --git a/doc/texinfo/nano.texi b/doc/texinfo/nano.texi index 3acfed97..d1c1e7f0 100644 --- a/doc/texinfo/nano.texi +++ b/doc/texinfo/nano.texi @@ -213,9 +213,10 @@ from the right of the screen, allowing it to vary along with the screen width if the screen is resized. @item -s [prog], --speller=[prog] -Invoke [prog] as the spell checker. By default, @code{nano} uses its -own interactive spell checker that requires the @code{spell} program be -installed on your system. +Invoke [prog] as the spell checker. By default, @code{nano} uses the +command specified in the SPELL environment variable, or, if SPELL is not +set, its own interactive spell checker that requires the @code{spell} +program to be installed on your system. @item -t, --tempfile Do not ask whether or not to save the current contents of the file when -- 2.39.5