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Manual: rephrase definition for indented strings

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Closes #15076
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iarizc Leuname 2016-04-29 20:49:56 +03:00
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nixos/doc/manual/configuration/config-file.xml
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@ -106,11 +106,15 @@ networking.extraHosts =
'';
</programlisting>
The main difference is that preceding whitespace is
automatically stripped from each line, and that characters like
The main difference is that it strips from each line
a number of spaces equal to the minimal indentation of
the string as a whole (disregarding the indentation of
empty lines), and that characters like
<literal>"</literal> and <literal>\</literal> are not special
(making it more convenient for including things like shell
code).</para>
code).
See more info about this in the Nix manual <link
xlink:href="https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ssec-values">here</link>.</para>
</listitem>
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