From e1d414c9922e79dfc3f00a1def679358e76ded69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:22:09 +0100 Subject: manpage: ' can't be used for quoting --- DOCS/man/mpv.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst index fda4aa0701..dd81392b6e 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ parser puts several options into a single string, and passes them to a component at once, instead of using multiple options on the level of the command line. -The suboption parser can quote strings with ``"``, ``'``, and ``[...]``. +The suboption parser can quote strings with ``"`` and ``[...]``. Additionally, there is a special form of quoting with ``%n%`` described below. For example, the ``opengl`` VO can take multiple options: @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ Escaping spaces and special characters This is done like with command line options. The shell is not involved here, but option values still need to be quoted as a whole if it contains certain -characters like spaces. A config entry can be quoted with ``"`` and ``'``, +characters like spaces. A config entry can be quoted with ``"``, as well as with the fixed-length syntax (``%n%``) mentioned before. This is like passing the exact contents of the quoted string as command line option. C-style escapes are currently _not_ interpreted on this level, although some options do -- cgit v1.2.3