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 68e5c76ce5..05b02dd575 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
@@ -84,27 +84,36 @@ augroup END</programlisting>
       <filename role="package">editors/nano</filename> or
       <filename role="package">editors/nano-devel</filename>.</para>
 
-    <para>Configuration:</para>
+    <sect2 id="editor-config-nano-config">
+    <title>Configuration</title>
+
+      <para>Copy the sample <acronym>XML</acronym> syntax highlight
+	file to the user's home directory:</para>
 
     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cp /usr/local/share/nano/xml.nanorc ~/.nanorc</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Use <command>printf</command> to add lines to the
-      configuration file.  Some have embedded <keycap>Tab</keycap>
-      characters, making this easier than editing the file
-      directly:</para>
+    <para>Add these lines to the new <filename>~/.nanorc</filename>.</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>printf '# trailing whitespace\n'                           >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf 'color ,blue "[[:space:]]+$"\n'                     >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf '# multiples of eight spaces at the start a line\n' >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf '# (after zero or more tabs) should be a tab\n'     >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf 'color ,blue "^([\t]*[ ]{8})+"\n'                   >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf '# tabs after spaces\n'                             >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf 'color ,yellow "( )+\t"\n'                          >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf '# lines longer than 70 characters\n'               >> ~/.nanorc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>printf 'color ,red "^(([ ]{2})+|(\t+))*[ ]{1}[^ ]{1}"\n'   >> ~/.nanorc</userinput></screen>
+    <programlisting># trailing whitespace
+color ,blue "[[:space:]]+$"
+# multiples of eight spaces at the start a line
+# (after zero or more tabs) should be a tab
+color ,blue "^([TAB]*[ ]{8})+"
+# tabs after spaces
+color ,yellow "( )+TAB"
+# highlight indents that have an odd number of spaces
+color ,red "^(([ ]{2})+|(TAB+))*[ ]{1}[^ ]{1}"
+# lines longer than 70 characters
+color ,yellow "^(.{71})|(TAB.{63})|(TAB{2}.{55})|(TAB{3}.{47}).+$"</programlisting>
 
+    <para>Process the file to create embedded tabs:</para>
+
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>perl -i'' -pe 's/TAB/\t/g' ~/.nanorc</userinput></screen>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="editor-config-nano-use">
+      <title>Use</title>
     <para>Specify additional helpful options when running the
-      editor.</para>
+      editor:</para>
 
     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nano -AKipwz -r 70 -T8 <replaceable>chapter.xml</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
@@ -117,5 +126,6 @@ augroup END</programlisting>
       automatically:</para>
 
     <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>nano <replaceable>chapter.xml</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+    </sect2>
   </sect1>
 </chapter>