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-rw-r--r--doc/tor.1.txt4
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diff --git a/changes/ticket29635 b/changes/ticket29635
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+ o Minor bugfixes (documentation, manpage):
+ - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options that
+ contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 52f5bfa0c3..ee91976066 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ instance, you can tell Tor to start listening for SOCKS connections on port
9999 by passing --SocksPort 9999 or SocksPort 9999 to it on the command line,
or by putting "SocksPort 9999" in the configuration file. You will need to
quote options with spaces in them: if you want Tor to log all debugging
-messages to debug.log, you will probably need to say --Log 'debug file
-debug.log'.
+messages to debug.log, you will probably need to say **--Log** `"debug file
+debug.log"`.
Options on the command line override those in configuration files. See the
next section for more information.