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 570b1b5..b4ba2ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
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 940fe47..55eeed1 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 <chrisa@asty.org>
+.\"
+.\" 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 <n> 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 @@
.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
.\" \fI<whatever>\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 @@
.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 <chrisa@asty.org>, et al. This manual page was
-originally written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian
-GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
+Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al (see AUTHORS for details).
+This manual page was originally written by Jordi Mallach
+<jordi@sindominio.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
+used by others).