From d089772b69807b0a66e56f6501d2ecf3d70e0114 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:43:08 +0200
Subject: ipc: skip empty and commented lines

---
 DOCS/man/ipc.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'DOCS')

diff --git a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
index f0c6004006..e377e2e881 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
@@ -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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