MFV: less v449.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/less/lessecho.man b/contrib/less/lessecho.man
index 682b0bd..e28f3c1 100644
--- a/contrib/less/lessecho.man
+++ b/contrib/less/lessecho.man
@@ -10,12 +10,18 @@ LESSECHO(1)                                                        LESSECHO(1)
 
 DESCRIPTION
        lessecho  is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
-       put.  But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
+       put.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded  by  an  "escape"
+       character, which by default is a backslash.
 
 OPTIONS
        A summary of options is included below.
 
-       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
+       -ex    Specifies  "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for
+              metachars.  If x is "-", no escape char is  used  and  arguments
+              containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
+
+       -ox    Specifies  "x",  rather  than double-quote, to be the open quote
+              character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
 
        -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
 
@@ -23,27 +29,26 @@ LESSECHO(1)                                                        LESSECHO(1)
 
        -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
 
-       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
+       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.  By default, no  characters  are
+              considered metachars.
 
        -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
 
-       -ex    Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-
-       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as  an  inte-
+       -fn    Specifies  "n"  to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte-
               ger.
 
-       -a     Specifies  that  all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is
-              that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
+       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The  default  is
+              that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
 
 SEE ALSO
        less(1)
 
 AUTHOR
-       This manual page was written by  Thomas  Schoepf  <schoepf@debian.org>,
+       This  manual  page  was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
        for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
 
        Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
 
 
 
-                           Version 444: 09 Jun 2011                LESSECHO(1)
+                           Version 449: 26 Jun 2012                LESSECHO(1)