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[PATCH 2/1] Documentation/config.txt: Correct info about subsection name

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Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@...>
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 10:14 am

Contrary to variable values, in subsection names parsing character
escape codes (besides literal escaping of " as \", and \ as \\)
is not performed; subsection name cannot contain newlines.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 77a2b16..d8244b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ in the section header, like in example below:
 
 --------
 
-Subsection names can contain any characters (doublequote '`"`', backslash
-'`\`' and newline have to be entered escaped as '`\"`', '`\\`' and '`\n`',
+Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote
+'`"`' and backslash have to be escaped as '`\"`' and '`\\`',
 respecitvely) and are case sensitive.  Section header 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
-- 
1.4.4.4

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