man: correct manual page with respect to whitespace in device-spec

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml.in b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml.in
index b7e228aa3e..ce2a7ab278 100644
--- a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml.in
+++ b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml.in
@@ -949,11 +949,15 @@ enable=nm-version-min:1.3,nm-version-min:1.2.6,nm-version-min:1.0.16
         <varlistentry>
           <term>SPEC[,;]SPEC</term>
           <listitem><para>Multiple specs can be concatenated with comman or semicolon. The order does not matter as
-             matches are either positive (inclusive) or negative, with negative matches having higher priority.</para>
+            matches are either inclusive or negative (<literal>except:</literal>), with negative matches having higher
+            priority.
+            </para>
             <para>Backslash is supported to escape the separators ';' and ',', and to express special
             characters such as newline ('\n'), tabulator ('\t'), whitespace ('\s') and backslash ('\\'). The globbing of
-            interface names cannot be escaped. Whitespace is taken literally so usually the specs will be concatenated
-            without spaces.</para></listitem>
+            interface names cannot be escaped. Whitespace is not a separator but will be trimmed between
+            two specs (unless escaped as '\s').
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
       </para>