From eb8e76d4332e089e5cd3c5a3c9f4bf64c9474909 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nicm <nicm>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:58:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Compact a small table into text.

---
 tmux.1 | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tmux.1 b/tmux.1
index a5956f18..9aa17be2 100644
--- a/tmux.1
+++ b/tmux.1
@@ -2774,19 +2774,18 @@ will be passed through
 and formats (see
 .Sx FORMATS )
 will be expanded.
-It may also contain any of the following special character sequences:
-.Bl -column "Character pair" "Replaced with" -offset indent
-.It Sy "Character pair" Ta Sy "Replaced with"
-.It Li "#[attributes]" Ta "Colour or attribute change"
-.It Li "##" Ta "A literal" Ql #
-.El
+
+It may also contain the a special character sequence #[] to change the colour
+or attributes, for example
+.Ql #[fg=red,bright]
+to set a bright red foreground.
+See the
+.Ic message-command-style
+option for a description of colours and attributes.
 .Pp
 For details on how the names and titles can be set see the
 .Sx "NAMES AND TITLES"
 section.
-For a list of allowed attributes see the
-.Ic message-command-style
-option.
 .Pp
 Examples are:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent