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authorGuido Cella <guido@guidocella.xyz>2023-11-23 08:46:20 +0100
committersfan5 <sfan5@live.de>2023-11-27 11:20:51 +0100
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DOCS/mpv: quotes in mpv.conf don't escape backslash
I don't know why I thought they did in 7798881360, but single quotes disable escape sequences only in input.conf commands.
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@@ -651,8 +651,9 @@ before. This is like passing the exact contents of the quoted string as a
command line option. C-style escapes are currently _not_ interpreted on this
level, although some options do this manually (this is a mess and should
probably be changed at some point). The shell is not involved here, so option
-values only need to be quoted to escape ``#`` and ``\``, ``"``, ``'`` or ``%``
-at the beginning of the value, and leading and trailing whitespace.
+values only need to be quoted to escape ``#`` anywhere in the value, ``"``,
+``'`` or ``%`` at the beginning of the value, and leading and trailing
+whitespace.
Putting Command Line Options into the Configuration File
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