From 025232b25b1b197bbb68291a14911ef9ac151e37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Lawrence Ramsey <pooka109@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:47:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention the default values for comment and whitespace
directives
Also, use proper mark-up for the examples.
---
doc/nano.texi | 9 +++++----
doc/nanorc.5 | 10 ++++++----
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/nano.texi b/doc/nano.texi
index cfd6e841..6f5e6644 100644
--- a/doc/nano.texi
+++ b/doc/nano.texi
@@ -932,13 +932,14 @@ system and will be silently ignored otherwise.
@item comment "string"
Use the given string for commenting and uncommenting lines. A vertical bar or
-pipe character (|) designates bracket-style comments; for example, "/*|*/" for
+pipe character (@t{|}) designates bracket-style comments; for example, @t{"/*|*/"} for
CSS files. The characters before the pipe are prepended to the line and the
characters after the pipe are appended at the end of the line. If no pipe
-character is present, the entire string is prepended; for example, "#" for
+character is present, the entire string is prepended; for example, @t{"#"} for
Python files. If empty double quotes are specified, the comment/uncomment
-functions are disabled; for example, "" for JSON. Double quotes or backslashes
-may be escaped with a backslash; for example, ".\\"" for man page source.
+functions are disabled; for example, @t{""} for JSON. Double quotes or backslashes
+may be escaped with a backslash; for example, @t{".\\""} for man page source.
+The default value is @t{"#"}.
@item color fgcolor,bgcolor "regex" @dots{}
Display all pieces of text that match the
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.5 b/doc/nanorc.5
index d7fadba3..b38ccc41 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.5
+++ b/doc/nanorc.5
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ Disallow file modification.
.TP
.B set whitespace "\fIstring\fP"
Set the two characters used to indicate the presence of tabs and
-spaces. They must be single-column characters.
+spaces. They must be single-column characters. The default pair
+for a UTF-8 locale is "\fB»·\fR", and for other locales "\fB>.\fR".
.TP
.B set wordbounds
Detect word boundaries differently by treating punctuation
@@ -329,13 +330,14 @@ system and will be silently ignored otherwise.
.TP
.BI comment " string"
Use the given string for commenting and uncommenting lines. A vertical bar or
-pipe character (|) designates bracket-style comments; for example, "/*|*/" for
+pipe character (\fB|\fP) designates bracket-style comments; for example, "\fB/*|*/\fP" for
CSS files. The characters before the pipe are prepended to the line and the
characters after the pipe are appended at the end of the line. If no pipe
-character is present, the entire string is prepended; for example, "#" for
+character is present, the entire string is prepended; for example, "\fB#\fP" for
Python files. If empty double quotes are specified, the comment/uncomment
function is disabled; for example, "" for JSON. Double quotes or backslashes
-may be escaped with a backslash; for example, ".\\"" for man page source.
+may be escaped with a backslash; for example, "\fB.\\"\fP" for man page source.
+The default value is "\fB#\fP".
.TP
.B color \fIfgcolor\fR,\fIbgcolor\fR """\fIregex\fR""" ...
Display all pieces of text that match
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