From 8e0cf9d878cd25977d0de312c5746117fe33c6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 15:31:17 +0200 Subject: options: change [...] to balanced quotes Useful for dealing with libavfilter's terrible graph syntax. Not strictly backwards compatible (for example "[a[b]" fails now - the "[" within the quote is interpreted now). But hopefully it's obscure enough not to warrant any kind of compatibility hacks. --- DOCS/man/mpv.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'DOCS') diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst index a2e47a1a6e..ec25d720ff 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst @@ -278,7 +278,9 @@ quotes. The ``[...]`` from of quotes wraps everything between ``[`` and ``]``. It's useful with shells that don't interpret these characters in the middle of -an argument (like bash). +an argument (like bash). These quotes are balanced (since mpv 0.9.0): the ``[`` +and ``]`` nest, and the quote terminates on the last ``]`` that has no matching +``[`` within the string. (For example, ``[a[b]c]`` results in ``a[b]c``.) The fixed-length quoting syntax is intended for use with external scripts and programs. -- cgit v1.2.3