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authorJames Earl Douglas <james@earldouglas.com>2017-04-21T00·07-0600
committerJames Earl Douglas <james@earldouglas.com>2017-04-21T00·07-0600
commit111d347237d7f313ab9acfafc0de859715c31564 (patch)
treea5b97ffa26115146bc818bea48250e27bac855ce /doc/manual/introduction/quick-start.xml
parent749696e71c9d637a36ab09a1368dff01b2b1bda8 (diff)
Drop misleading ellipses
This portion of the quick start guide may lead to confusion for
newcomers to Nix.  This change clarifies the example to one that can be
copied in its entirety.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction/quick-start.xml b/doc/manual/introduction/quick-start.xml
index 5ae9f6ad543b..aa239b7538b4 100644
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+++ b/doc/manual/introduction/quick-start.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ libxslt-1.1.28
 <step><para>Install some packages from the channel:
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-env -i hello <replaceable>...</replaceable> </screen>
+$ nix-env -i hello</screen>
 
 This should download pre-built packages; it should not build them
 locally (if it does, something went wrong).</para></step>