From 49dd59d707c4e79804835c9cb5a49d1516e7eeff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Martin 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