- The ``@bfg_view`` decorator can now be used against a class method::

    from webob import Response
    from repoze.bfg.view import bfg_view

    class MyView(object):
        def __init__(self, context, request):
            self.context = context
            self.request = request

        @bfg_view(name='hello')
        def amethod(self):
            return Response('hello from %s!' % self.context)

  When the bfg_view decorator is used against a class method, a view
  is registered for the *class* (it's a "class view" where the "attr"
  happens to be the method they're attached to), so the view class
  must have a suitable constructor.

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diff --git a/docs/narr/views.rst b/docs/narr/views.rst
index b52abf57f..effc17f06 100644
--- a/docs/narr/views.rst
+++ b/docs/narr/views.rst
@@ -729,6 +729,50 @@ This registers the same view under two different names.
    stacked without the effect of the "upper" decorator cancelling the
    effect of the the decorator beneath it.
 
+The bfg_view decorator can also be used against class methods:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+   :linenos:
+
+   from webob import Response
+   from repoze.bfg.view import bfg_view
+
+   class MyView(object):
+       def __init__(self, context, request):
+           self.context = context
+           self.request = request
+
+       @bfg_view(name='hello')
+       def amethod(self):
+           return Response('hello from %s!' % self.context)
+
+When the bfg_view decorator is used against a class method, a view is
+registered for the *class*, so the class constructor must accept
+either ``request`` or ``context, request``.  The method which is
+decorated must return a response (or rely on a :term:`renderer` to
+generate one). Using the decorator against a particular method of a
+class is equivalent to using the ``attr`` parameter in a decorator
+attached to the class itself.  For example, the above registration
+implied by the decorator being used against the ``amethod`` method
+could be spelled equivalently as the below:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+   from webob import Response
+   from repoze.bfg.view import bfg_view
+
+   @bfg_view(attr='amethod', name='hello')
+   class MyView(object):
+       def __init__(self, context, request):
+           self.context = context
+           self.request = request
+
+       def amethod(self):
+           return Response('hello from %s!' % self.context)
+
+.. warning:: The ability to use the ``bfg_view`` decorator as a method
+             decorator is new in :mod:`repoze.bfg` version 1.1.
+
 .. _view_lookup_ordering:
 
 View Lookup Ordering