documentation improvements

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt
index b28aa28cc..9627e18c7 100755
--- a/doc/manual.txt
+++ b/doc/manual.txt
@@ -730,7 +730,8 @@ to ``cstring`` for convenience. If a Nimrod string is passed to a C-style
 variadic proc, it is implicitely converted to ``cstring`` too:

 

 .. code-block:: nimrod

-  proc printf(formatstr: cstring) {.importc: "printf", varargs.}

+  proc printf(formatstr: cstring) {.importc: "printf", varargs, 

+                                    header: "<stdio.h>".}

   

   printf("This works %s", "as expected")

 

@@ -2054,6 +2055,7 @@ Type casts
 ~~~~~~~~~~

 Example:

 

+

 .. code-block:: nimrod

   cast[int](x)

 

@@ -2555,6 +2557,7 @@ type class           matches
 ==================   ===================================================

 ``object``           any object type

 ``tuple``            any tuple type

+

 ``enum``             any enumeration

 ``proc``             any proc type

 ``ref``              any ``ref`` type

@@ -3467,7 +3470,7 @@ A global variable can be marked with the `threadvar`:idx: pragma; it is
 a `thead-local`:idx: variable then:

 

 .. code-block:: nimrod

-  var checkpoints* {.thread.}: seq[string] = @[]

+  var checkpoints* {.threadvar.}: seq[string] = @[]

 

 

 Actor model

diff --git a/doc/tut1.txt b/doc/tut1.txt
index 1b0b2cd10..bbc4e1ee6 100755
--- a/doc/tut1.txt
+++ b/doc/tut1.txt
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ terminating zero is no error and often leads to simpler code:
     ...
 
 The assignment operator for strings copies the string. You can use the ``&``
-operator to concatenate strings.
+operator to concatenate strings and ``add`` to append to a string.
 
 Strings are compared by their lexicographical order. All comparison operators
 are available. Per convention, all strings are UTF-8 strings, but this is not