commit 27eec505270ba6378e8ff732da5432b30ac107f7
parent 13e93bdfd5a3bc8349723a0e3a9e05f2dd300f99
Author: rl1987 <rl1987@sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 11:51:08 +0200
manpage: fix formatting of example on quoting options with spaces
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/ticket29635 b/changes/ticket29635
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes (documentation, manpage):
+ - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options that
+ contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ instance, you can tell Tor to start listening for SOCKS connections on port
9999 by passing --SocksPort 9999 or SocksPort 9999 to it on the command line,
or by putting "SocksPort 9999" in the configuration file. You will need to
quote options with spaces in them: if you want Tor to log all debugging
-messages to debug.log, you will probably need to say --Log 'debug file
-debug.log'.
+messages to debug.log, you will probably need to say **--Log** `"debug file
+debug.log"`.
Options on the command line override those in configuration files. See the
next section for more information.
