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Document multiline options in the manpage

Sebastian Hahn 13 years ago
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changes/torrc_continuation

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     - Support line continuations in torrc.  If a line ends with a
       single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and the
       configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
+      Implements bug 1929.
 

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doc/tor.1.txt

@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ Other options can be specified either on the command-line (--option
     value), or in the configuration file (option value or option "value").
     Options are case-insensitive. C-style escaped characters are allowed inside
     quoted values.   Options on the command line take precedence over
-    options found in the configuration file.
+    options found in the configuration file, except indicated otherwise.  To
+    split one configuration entry into multiple lines, use a single \ before
+    the end of the line.  Comments can be used in such multiline entries, but
+    they must start at the beginning of a line.
 
 **BandwidthRate** __N__ **bytes**|**KB**|**MB**|**GB**::
     A token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage on this node to