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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-09-02T11·23+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2013-09-02T11·24+0200
commitc28dfc030587cb5a4ccdc71e5f55e708a9aa901d (patch)
tree2e7056560e185c8e5cf3e97bfe10df1006d096af /doc
parente9b92169a5a9d187e32d0ce15ca785eb9f8dce56 (diff)
Manual: Make '' a bit clearer
Issue #162.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index 76007fe28feb..e155d0e367cd 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -720,12 +720,12 @@ configureFlags = "
     <para>Since <literal>${</literal> and <literal>''</literal> have
     special meaning in indented strings, you need a way to quote them.
     <literal>${</literal> can be escaped by prefixing it with
-    <literal>''</literal>, i.e., <literal>''${</literal>.
-    <literal>''</literal> can be escaped by prefixing it with
-    <literal>'</literal>, i.e., <literal>'''</literal>.  Finally,
-    linefeed, carriage-return and tab characters can be written as
-    <literal>''\n</literal>, <literal>''\r</literal>,
-    <literal>''\t</literal>.</para>
+    <literal>''</literal> (that is, two single quotes), i.e.,
+    <literal>''${</literal>.  <literal>''</literal> can be escaped by
+    prefixing it with <literal>'</literal>, i.e.,
+    <literal>'''</literal>.  Finally, linefeed, carriage-return and
+    tab characters can be written as <literal>''\n</literal>,
+    <literal>''\r</literal>, <literal>''\t</literal>.</para>
 
     <para>Indented strings are primarily useful in that they allow
     multi-line string literals to follow the indentation of the