the name of the option is a bit too low-level
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 77c2da7..da5db1d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2535,14 +2535,14 @@
.. attribute:: file.newlines
- If Python was built with the :option:`--with-universal-newlines` option to
- :program:`configure` (the default) this read-only attribute exists, and for
- files opened in universal newline read mode it keeps track of the types of
- newlines encountered while reading the file. The values it can take are
- ``'\r'``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r\n'``, ``None`` (unknown, no newlines read yet) or a
- tuple containing all the newline types seen, to indicate that multiple newline
- conventions were encountered. For files not opened in universal newline read
- mode the value of this attribute will be ``None``.
+ If Python was built with universal newlines enabled (the default) this
+ read-only attribute exists, and for files opened in universal newline read
+ mode it keeps track of the types of newlines encountered while reading the
+ file. The values it can take are ``'\r'``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r\n'``, ``None``
+ (unknown, no newlines read yet) or a tuple containing all the newline types
+ seen, to indicate that multiple newline conventions were encountered. For
+ files not opened in universal newline read mode the value of this attribute
+ will be ``None``.
.. attribute:: file.softspace