5 files changed, 38 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index 48dce7c95..1fa74a143 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -19,26 +19,30 @@
 
 <refsection><title>Description</title>
 
-<para>Nix reads settings from two configuration files:</para>
+<para>By default Nix reads settings from the following places:</para>
+
+<para>The system-wide configuration file
+<filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/nix.conf</filename>
+(i.e. <filename>/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename> on most systems), or
+<filename>$NIX_CONF_DIR/nix.conf</filename> if
+<envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar> is set. Values loaded in this file are not forwarded to the Nix daemon. The
+client assumes that the daemon has already loaded them.
+</para>
 
-<itemizedlist>
+<para>User-specific configuration files:</para>
 
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The system-wide configuration file
-    <filename><replaceable>sysconfdir</replaceable>/nix/nix.conf</filename>
-    (i.e. <filename>/etc/nix/nix.conf</filename> on most systems), or
-    <filename>$NIX_CONF_DIR/nix.conf</filename> if
-    <envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar> is set.</para>
-  </listitem>
+<para>
+  If <envar>NIX_USER_CONF_FILES</envar> is set, then each path separated by
+  <literal>:</literal> will be loaded in reverse order.
+</para>
 
-  <listitem>
-    <para>The user configuration file
-    <filename>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nix/nix.conf</filename>, or
-    <filename>~/.config/nix/nix.conf</filename> if
-    <envar>XDG_CONFIG_HOME</envar> is not set.</para>
-  </listitem>
+<para>
+  Otherwise it will look for <filename>nix/nix.conf</filename> files in
+  <envar>XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</envar> and <envar>XDG_CONFIG_HOME</envar>.
 
-</itemizedlist>
+  The default location is <filename>$HOME/.config/nix.conf</filename> if
+  those environment variables are unset.
+</para>
 
 <para>The configuration files consist of
 <literal><replaceable>name</replaceable> =
@@ -382,7 +386,7 @@ false</literal>.</para>
 
 <programlisting>
 builtins.fetchurl {
-  url = https://example.org/foo-1.2.3.tar.xz;
+  url = "https://example.org/foo-1.2.3.tar.xz";
   sha256 = "2c26b46b68ffc68ff99b453c1d30413413422d706483bfa0f98a5e886266e7ae";
 }
 </programlisting>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
index 696d68c34..8466cc463 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/env-common.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
     will cause Nix to look for paths relative to
     <filename>/home/eelco/Dev</filename> and
-    <filename>/etc/nixos</filename>, in that order.  It is also
+    <filename>/etc/nixos</filename>, in this order.  It is also
     possible to match paths against a prefix.  For example, the value
 
     <screen>
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ nixpkgs=/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs-branch:/etc/nixos</screen>
     <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> to
 
     <screen>
-nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz</screen>
+nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-15.09.tar.gz</screen>
 
     tells Nix to download the latest revision in the Nixpkgs/NixOS
     15.09 channel.</para>
 
     <para>A following shorthand can be used to refer to the official channels:
-    
+
     <screen>nixpkgs=channel:nixos-15.09</screen>
     </para>
 
@@ -137,12 +137,19 @@ $ mount -o bind /mnt/otherdisk/nix /nix</screen>
 
 <varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_CONF_DIR</envar></term>
 
-  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the Nix configuration
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the system Nix configuration
   directory (default
   <filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/etc/nix</filename>).</para></listitem>
 
 </varlistentry>
 
+<varlistentry><term><envar>NIX_USER_CONF_FILES</envar></term>
+
+  <listitem><para>Overrides the location of the user Nix configuration files
+  to load from (defaults to the XDG spec locations). The variable is treated
+  as a list separated by the <literal>:</literal> token.</para></listitem>
+
+</varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry><term><envar>TMPDIR</envar></term>
 
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
index 9c03ccce1..2b95b6819 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-env.xml
@@ -526,13 +526,10 @@ these paths will be fetched (0.04 MiB download, 0.19 MiB unpacked):
 14.12 channel:
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-env -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz -iA firefox
+$ nix-env -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz -iA firefox
 </screen>
 
-(The GitHub repository <literal>nixpkgs-channels</literal> is updated
-automatically from the main <literal>nixpkgs</literal> repository
-after certain tests have succeeded and binaries have been built and
-uploaded to the binary cache at <uri>cache.nixos.org</uri>.)</para>
+</para>
 
 </refsection>
 
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
index 766482460..2fef323c5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ path. You can override it by passing <option>-I</option> or setting
 containing the Pan package from a specific revision of Nixpkgs:
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-shell -p pan -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/8a3eea054838b55aca962c3fbde9c83c102b8bf2.tar.gz
+$ nix-shell -p pan -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/8a3eea054838b55aca962c3fbde9c83c102b8bf2.tar.gz
 
 [nix-shell:~]$ pan --version
 Pan 0.139
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ following Haskell script uses a specific branch of Nixpkgs/NixOS (the
 <programlisting><![CDATA[
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
 #! nix-shell -i runghc -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (ps: [ps.HTTP ps.tagsoup])"
-#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-18.03.tar.gz
+#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/nixos-18.03.tar.gz
 
 import Network.HTTP
 import Text.HTML.TagSoup
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ If you want to be even more precise, you can specify a specific
 revision of Nixpkgs:
 
 <programlisting>
-#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/0672315759b3e15e2121365f067c1c8c56bb4722.tar.gz
+#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0672315759b3e15e2121365f067c1c8c56bb4722.tar.gz
 </programlisting>
 
 </para>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
index 1ddb5408d..d71f9d8e4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-store.xml
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ $ nix-store --add ./foo.c
 
 <para>The operation <option>--add-fixed</option> adds the specified paths to
 the Nix store.  Unlike <option>--add</option> paths are registered using the
-specified hashing algorithm, resulting in the same output path as a fixed output
+specified hashing algorithm, resulting in the same output path as a fixed-output
 derivation.  This can be used for sources that are not available from a public
 url or broke since the download expression was written.
 </para>