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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9593bfabaa..a63b329ff4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ in the section header, like in the example below: -------- Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except -newline (doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them -as `\"` and `\\`, respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple -lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. -You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you -don't need to. +newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included +by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding +other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as +`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines. +Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You +can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't +need to. There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also |