diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 66259220e..063d4337e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2005-04-14 Roland Illig + + * doc/mc.1.in (Internal File Viewer): Rewrote some documentation. + Removed the paragraph about the growing buffers. It's generally + uninteresting to users. + 2005-04-13 Roland Illig * configure.ac: Add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS if the maintainer mode diff --git a/doc/mc.1.in b/doc/mc.1.in index 282df221e..09d7b16b2 100644 --- a/doc/mc.1.in +++ b/doc/mc.1.in @@ -2355,14 +2355,13 @@ a backslash and '\\*' is an asterisk. .\"NODE "Internal File Viewer" .SH "Internal File Viewer" The internal file viewer provides two display modes: ASCII and hex. -To toggle between modes, use the F4 key. If you have the GNU gzip -program installed, it will be used to automatically decompress the -files on demand. +To toggle between modes, use the F4 key. .PP The viewer will try to use the best method provided by your system or -the file type to display the information. The internal file viewer -will interpret some string sequences to set the bold and underline -attributes, thus making a pretty display of your files. +the file type to display the information. +Some character sequences, which appear most often in preformatted manual +pages, are displayed bold and underlined, thus making a pretty display +of your files. .PP When in hex mode, the search function accepts text in quotes and constant numbers. Text in quotes is matched exactly after removing @@ -2375,13 +2374,6 @@ with constants like this: .PP Note that 012 is an octal number. -1 is converted to 0xFF. .PP -Some internal details about the viewer: On systems that provide the -mmap(2) system call, the program maps the file instead of loading it; -if the system does not provide the mmap(2) system call or the file -matches an action that requires a filter, then the viewer will use -its growing buffers, thus loading only those parts of the file that -you actually access (this includes compressed files). -.PP Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer. .PP