<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>