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authorwm4 <wm4@nowhere>2014-10-19 21:43:08 +0200
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ipc: skip empty and commented lines
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@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ can also be present. See `List of events`_ for a list of all supported events.
If the first character (after skipping whitespace) is not ``{``, the command
will be interpreted as non-JSON text command, as they are used in input.conf
-(or ``mpv_command_string()`` in the client API).
+(or ``mpv_command_string()`` in the client API). Additionally, line starting
+with ``#`` and empty lines are ignored.
+
+Currently, embedded 0 bytes terminate the current line, but you should not
+rely on this.
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