From a0989ad672bd22afe89ee2c2f50b32003ebb2764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Davydov <davydden@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 04:26:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] minor cleanup of environment-modules documentation (#814)

* minor cleanup of environment-modules documentation

* environment modules: update usage instructions
---
 lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
index 68f3d07b29..0e603813e1 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
@@ -807,17 +807,22 @@ Environment Modules, you can get it with Spack:
 
 1. Install with::
 
+.. code-block:: sh
+
     spack install environment-modules
 
 2. Activate with::
 
-    MODULES_HOME=`spack location -i environment-modules`
-     MODULES_VERSION=`ls -1 $MODULES_HOME/Modules | head -1`
-     ${MODULES_HOME}/Modules/${MODULES_VERSION}/bin/add.modules
+Add the following two lines to your ``.bashrc`` profile (or similar):
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+   MODULES_HOME=`spack location -i environment-modules`
+   source ${MODULES_HOME}/Modules/init/bash
+
+In case you use a Unix shell other than bash, substitute ``bash`` by
+the appropriate file in ``${MODULES_HOME}/Modules/init/``.
 
-This adds to your ``.bashrc`` (or similar) files, enabling Environment
-Modules when you log in.  It will ask your permission before changing
-any files.
 
 Spack and Environment Modules
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~