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diff --git a/man/syncthing-stignore.5 b/man/syncthing-stignore.5 index 2c3f0d6671..74ab5b87aa 100644 --- a/man/syncthing-stignore.5 +++ b/man/syncthing-stignore.5 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. -.TH "SYNCTHING-STIGNORE" "5" "Jan 12, 2022" "v1" "Syncthing" +.TH "SYNCTHING-STIGNORE" "5" "Jan 22, 2022" "v1" "Syncthing" .SH NAME syncthing-stignore \- Prevent files from being synchronized to other nodes .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -89,8 +89,21 @@ any lower case character. .IP \(bu 2 \fBBackslash\fP (\fB\e\fP) “escapes” a special character so that it loses its special meaning. For example, \fB\e{banana\e}\fP matches \fB{banana}\fP exactly -and does not denote a set of alternatives as above. \fIEscaped characters -are not supported on Windows.\fP +and does not denote a set of alternatives as above. +.UNINDENT +.sp +\fBNOTE:\fP +.INDENT 0.0 +.INDENT 3.5 +Escaped characters are not supported on Windows, where \fB\e\fP is the +path separator. If you still need to match files that have square or +curly brackets in their names, one possible workaround is to replace +them with \fB?\fP, which will then match any character. For example, +you can type \fB?banana?\fP to match both \fB[banana]\fP and +\fB{banana}\fP, and so on. +.UNINDENT +.UNINDENT +.INDENT 0.0 .IP \(bu 2 A pattern beginning with \fB/\fP matches in the root of the folder only. \fB/foo\fP matches \fBfoo\fP but not \fBsubdir/foo\fP\&. |