[PATCH 20/31] docs: consistently use minus sign for M- notation

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:00:13 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.editors.nano.devel
Message-ID	<20260423230013.ac5nob4jegg3nk7r@illithid>
Usage in nano's man pages was split between `M-x` and `M\-x`, favoring
the latter.  Either could be defended.  Since nano parses `M-x` notation
from its nanorc file, a user might conceivably copy and paste from the
man page into that file, which favors escaping the hyphen to make it (in
*roff parlance) a minus sign (which man(7) renders as a hyphen-minus).
---
 doc/nano.1   |  2 +-
 doc/nanorc.5 | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/nano.1 b/doc/nano.1
index 67a4ec91..6c1ce2e0 100644
--- a/doc/nano.1
+++ b/doc/nano.1
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .SH NOTICES
 If you prefer the old behavior, you can use \fB\-\-solo\fR on the
 command line or \fBset solosidescroll\fR in your \fInanorc\fR.
 .P
-Also since version 9.0, keystrokes \fBM-<\fR and \fBM->\fR have
+Also since version 9.0, keystrokes \fBM\-<\fR and \fBM\->\fR have
 been reassigned to the \fBscrollleft\fR and \fBscrollright\fR functions.
 If you want those keystrokes to do what they did before version 9.0,
 add these two lines at the end of your \fInanorc\fR file:
diff --git a/doc/nanorc.5 b/doc/nanorc.5
index 53302e6d..d9350fe4 100644
--- a/doc/nanorc.5
+++ b/doc/nanorc.5
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ .SH NOTICES
 If you prefer the old behavior, you can use \fB\-\-solo\fR on the
 command line or \fBset solosidescroll\fR in your \fInanorc\fR.
 .P
-Also since version 9.0, keystrokes \fBM-<\fR and \fBM->\fR have
+Also since version 9.0, keystrokes \fBM\-<\fR and \fBM\->\fR have
 been reassigned to the \fBscrollleft\fR and \fBscrollright\fR functions.
 If you want those keystrokes to do what they did before version 9.0,
 add these two lines at the end of your \fInanorc\fR file:
@@ -808,26 +808,26 @@ .SH REBINDING KEYS
 .TP
 .B scrollleft
 Scrolls the viewport a tabsize to the left, when possible.
-(This function is bound by default to \fBM-<\fR.)
+(This function is bound by default to \fBM\-<\fR.)
 .TP
 .B scrollright
 Scrolls the viewport a tabsize to the right.  When needed to keep
 the cursor visible, it is moved to a longer line in the viewport.
 If there is no sufficiently longer line, no scroll is made.
-(This function is bound by default to \fBM->\fR.)
+(This function is bound by default to \fBM\->\fR.)
 .TP
 .B scrollup
 Scrolls the viewport up one row (meaning that the text slides down)
 while keeping the cursor in the same text position, if possible.
-(This function is bound by default to \fBM-Up\fR.
-If \fBM-Up\fR does nothing on your Linux console, see the FAQ:
+(This function is bound by default to \fBM\-Up\fR.
+If \fBM\-Up\fR does nothing on your Linux console, see the FAQ:
 .UR https://\:nano\-editor.org/\:dist/\:latest/\:faq\:.html#4.1
 .UE .)
 .TP
 .B scrolldown
 Scrolls the viewport down one row (meaning that the text slides up)
 while keeping the cursor in the same text position, if possible.
-(This function is bound by default to \fBM-Down\fR.)
+(This function is bound by default to \fBM\-Down\fR.)
 .TP
 .B center
 Scrolls the line with the cursor to the middle of the viewport.
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