[Nano-devel] [patch] synopsis, and some descriptions

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

The current synopsises in the man page and info document are thus:

    nano [+LINE,COLUMN] [options] [file]

    `nano' +LINE,COLUMN [GNU long option] [option] [ FILE ... ]

But some experimentation shows that the COLUMN part is optional, and 
that every filename may be preceded with a line-column pair.  Also, 
mentioning long options separately gives the impression that these 
should come first, which isn't the case.  So a more accurate 
synopsis would be:

    nano [OPTION]... [[+LINE[,COLUMN]] FILE]...

The first patch makes this change; in the info document in a more 
elaborate way, for clarity.

The second patch corrects a few typos, changes the wording here and 
there, and synchronizes some descriptions in the info document with 
the man page.

Regards,

Benno

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nano--info-wording.patch
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