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| author | NotaseCretagen <Notase.Cretagen@gmail.com> | 2016-04-30 14:14:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si> | 2016-04-30 12:14:06 +0100 |
| commit | e704c90b50ff7638d2bdfec5ea50903e6c43e5a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f78649b163aba04bf191c8fa2852710861ba424 /nixos/doc | |
| parent | 586d1f67ce4262ccae845e2848a68994dada3d91 (diff) | |
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Manual: rephrase definition for indented strings (#15086)
Closes #15076
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| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml index 9b240979273d..645257687fd6 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml @@ -106,11 +106,15 @@ networking.extraHosts = ''; </programlisting> - The main difference is that preceding whitespace is - automatically stripped from each line, and that characters like + The main difference is that it strips from each line + a number of spaces equal to the minimal indentation of + the string as a whole (disregarding the indentation of + empty lines), and that characters like <literal>"</literal> and <literal>\</literal> are not special (making it more convenient for including things like shell code).</para> + See more info about this in the Nix manual <link +xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-values">here</link>. </listitem> </varlistentry> |