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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2015-11-08 18:06:37 +0100
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manpage: slightly improve configuration files section
Hint that the linked section contains information for Windows. (Well, that's a lie, but it has a link to the Windows section.) Avoid implying that lines in the config file end with ';'. Also, the <> are probably just confusing.
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@@ -392,10 +392,11 @@ You can put all of the options in configuration files which will be read every
time mpv is run. The system-wide configuration file 'mpv.conf' is in your
configuration directory (e.g. ``/etc/mpv`` or ``/usr/local/etc/mpv``), the
user-specific one is ``~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf``. For details and platform
-specifics see the `FILES`_ section.
+specifics (in particular Windows paths) see the `FILES`_ section.
+
User-specific options override system-wide options and options given on the
command line override either. The syntax of the configuration files is
-``option=<value>``; everything after a *#* is considered a comment. Options
+``option=value``. Everything after a *#* is considered a comment. Options
that work without values can be enabled by setting them to *yes* and disabled by
setting them to *no*. Even suboptions can be specified in this way.