diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config/chapter.xml
index 0e9016af80..5a4bc92af4 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/editor-config/chapter.xml
@@ -202,8 +202,9 @@ http://www.freshports.org/textproc/igor/."
 
       <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cp /usr/local/share/nano/xml.nanorc ~/.nanorc</userinput></screen>
 
-      <para>Add these lines to the new
-	<filename>~/.nanorc</filename>.</para>
+      <para>Use an editor to replace the lines in the
+	<filename>~/.nanorc</filename> <literal>syntax "xml"</literal>
+	block with these rules:</para>
 
       <programlisting>syntax "xml" "\.([jrs]html?|xml|xslt?)$"
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