Hex patterns: fix manual page.

* Decimal and octal numerals aren't supported(!).
* Negative numbers are no longer supported.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin <aborodin@vmail.ru>
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Mooffie 2016-09-26 13:19:44 +03:00 committed by Andrew Borodin
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@ -2893,10 +2893,13 @@ the quotes. Each number matches one byte. You can mix quoted text
with constants like this:
.PP
.nf
"String" \-1 0xBB 012 "more text"
"String" 34 0xBB 012 "more text"
.fi
.PP
Note that 012 is an octal number. \-1 is converted to 0xFF.
Numbers are always interpreted in hex. In the example above, "34" is
interpreted as 0x34. The prefix "0x" isn't really needed: we could type
"BB" instead of "0xBB". And "012" is interpreted as 0x12, not as an octal
number.
.PP
Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the
Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer.