about summary refs log tree commit diff stats
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorjakanakae-envangel <jakanakaevangeli@chiru.no>2019-09-01 17:50:36 +0200
committertoonn <toonn@toonn.io>2021-09-02 13:16:28 +0200
commitbb2734a3899aed931390ec16a64c5938cb68277c (patch)
tree5840cc677133d0945bbfde2fdb454d22e26fde59 /doc
parent4737c998eb562f014d005898e36a90c2c362d265 (diff)
downloadranger-bb2734a3899aed931390ec16a64c5938cb68277c.tar.gz
man: Regex chars have to be escaped in setlocal
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/ranger.15
-rw-r--r--doc/ranger.pod3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ranger.1 b/doc/ranger.1
index 5ce8566a..361ce182 100644
--- a/doc/ranger.1
+++ b/doc/ranger.1
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "RANGER 1"
-.TH RANGER 1 "ranger-1.9.3" "2021-09-01" "ranger manual"
+.TH RANGER 1 "ranger-1.9.3" "2021-09-02" "ranger manual"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -1713,7 +1713,8 @@ directory. If no path is given, uses the current directory.
 .Sp
 \&\fIpath\fR is a regular expression.  This means that \f(CW\*(C`path=~/dl\*(C'\fR applies to all
 paths that start with \fI~/dl\fR, e.g. \fI~/dl2\fR and \fI~/dl/foo\fR. To avoid this,
-use \f(CW\*(C`path=~/dl$\*(C'\fR.
+use \f(CW\*(C`path=~/dl$\*(C'\fR.  To specify a folder with special characters
+(.^$\e*+?(){}[]|), escape them with a backslash.
 .Sp
 \&\fIpath\fR can be quoted with either single or double quotes to prevent unwanted
 splitting. \fIpath='~/dl dl$'\fR or \fIpath=\*(L"~/dl dl$\*(R"\fR
diff --git a/doc/ranger.pod b/doc/ranger.pod
index 3fdc37d3..5138a15e 100644
--- a/doc/ranger.pod
+++ b/doc/ranger.pod
@@ -1856,7 +1856,8 @@ directory. If no path is given, uses the current directory.
 
 I<path> is a regular expression.  This means that C<path=~/dl> applies to all
 paths that start with I<~/dl>, e.g. I<~/dl2> and I<~/dl/foo>. To avoid this,
-use C<path=~/dl$>.
+use C<path=~/dl$>.  To specify a folder with special characters
+(.^$\*+?(){}[]|), escape them with a backslash.
 
 I<path> can be quoted with either single or double quotes to prevent unwanted
 splitting. I<path='~/dl dl$'> or I<path="~/dl dl$">