From 49dd59d707c4e79804835c9cb5a49d1516e7eeff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evan Martin <martine@danga.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:58:36 -0700
Subject: document that \r and \t are disallowed

Finishes #394.
---
 doc/manual.asciidoc | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc
index 52cce3b..03d27df 100644
--- a/doc/manual.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc
@@ -524,7 +524,9 @@ Lexical syntax
 
 Ninja is mostly encoding agnostic, as long as the bytes Ninja cares
 about (like slashes in paths) are ASCII.  This means e.g. UTF-8 or
-ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work.
+ISO-8859-1 input files ought to work.  (To simplify some code, tabs
+and carriage returns are currently disallowed; this could be fixed if
+it really mattered to you.)
 
 Comments begin with `#` and extend to the end of the line.
 
-- 
cgit v0.12

