diff --git a/twander.1 b/twander.1 index 86f2e02..23fd575 100644 --- a/twander.1 +++ b/twander.1 @@ -3598,7 +3598,7 @@ .SS Associations -Most X-Windows window managers and Microsoft Windows support the idea +Most X-Windows desktops and Microsoft Windows support the idea of "associations". That is, based on the name of a file, they "associate" an application that can handle it. So, for example, a filename ending in ".txt" is handled by a text editor, a filename @@ -3607,9 +3607,9 @@ double-click on a file and the interface can infer which program to load to process that file. -The problem is that the various window managers and Microsoft Windows don't -all handle associations the same way. Some lighter X-Windows window -managers may not even have associations at all. In order for to remain +The problem is that the various X desktops and Microsoft Windows don't +all handle associations the same way. Some lighter X-Windows desktop +may not even have associations at all. In order for to remain portable across operating systems, and work more-or-less the same way everywhere, association support has been implemented directly within \fCtwander\fP itself. @@ -3657,11 +3657,11 @@ .nf ASSOC *.pdf mypdfreader [SELECTION] ASSOC *.ps mypostscriptprogram [SELECTION] - ASSOC * myfineeditor [SELECTION] + ASSOC * myfineeditor [SELECTION] # Default association .fi .ft \" revert -In this situation, if you double-click or press "Enter" on any file +In this example, if you double-click or press "Enter" on any file not ending in either ".pdf" or ".ps", the default association action will be taken: The file will be opened with \fCmyfineeditor\fP. @@ -3750,7 +3750,7 @@ systems, this has traditionally been the set of characters the follow the period at the end of the filename. But this convention is not consistently used on Unix-like systems. \fCtwander\fP lets you use a -fairly powerful "widcarding" system to define what is common about the +fairly powerful "wildcarding" system to define what is common about the names of all files of a given type. Unix users will recognize this as the shell \fCglobbing\fP wildcards. Here they are implemented for both Windows and the Unix-like systems in the same way. The only @@ -3919,9 +3919,9 @@ .IP \(bu 4 On Unix-like operating systems \fCtwander\fP ignores the underlying -associations (if any) of the system and/or window manager. It only +associations (if any) of the system and/or X desktop. It only observes its own associations. That's because there is no consistent -association mechanism across the many OS and window manager variants +association mechanism across the many OS and desktop variants in use on those platforms. But Microsoft Windows is a different matter. All modern variants of @@ -5202,4 +5202,4 @@ .ft \" revert .SH DOCUMENT REVISION INFORMATION -$Id: twander.1,v 1.141 2006/12/19 10:05:16 tundra Exp $ \ No newline at end of file +$Id: twander.1,v 1.142 2006/12/19 16:41:14 tundra Exp $ \ No newline at end of file