3693-Hex-patterns-fix-manual-page.patch

From d0a51ecb86cae5f1756fcacbae7dc2deddec52d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mooffie <mooffie@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:19:44 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Hex patterns: fix manual page.

* Decimal and octal numerals aren't supported(!).

* Negative numbers are no longer supported since commit
  8a0a49c07e0725891db89b773b3e4a6c9974ed03
---
 doc/man/mc.1.in | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/man/mc.1.in b/doc/man/mc.1.in
index 901efd3..0c07df8 100644
--- a/doc/man/mc.1.in
+++ b/doc/man/mc.1.in
@@ -2894,10 +2894,13 @@ the quotes.  Each number matches one byte.  You can mix quoted text
 with constants like this:
 .PP
 .nf
-"String" \-1 0xBB 012 "more text"
+"String" 34 0xBB 012 "more text"
 .fi
 .PP
-Note that 012 is an octal number.  \-1 is converted to 0xFF.
+Numbers are always interpreted in hex. In the example above, "34" is
+interpreted as 0x34. The prefix "0x" isn't really needed: we could type
+"BB" instead of "0xBB". And "012" is interpreted as 0x12, not as an octal
+number.
 .PP
 Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the
 Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer.
-- 
2.9.3