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| author |  wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-05-13 20:44:41 +0200 |
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| committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2015-05-13 20:44:55 +0200 |
| commit | 0468a4ea47cb42de3406dc4e3737c8595cb556bc (patch) | |
| tree | c5a26934b0e875750558f1790e5bd539c56a21d0 /DOCS/man | |
| parent | a23a46c6ede4673fb73afe152723f8c23cc5d28e (diff) | |
manpage: explain some property expansion restrictions
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| -rw-r--r-- | DOCS/man/input.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst index 41c3d60db7..a7d620d82a 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/input.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst @@ -1805,7 +1805,10 @@ Property Expansion ------------------ All string arguments to input commands as well as certain options (like -``--term-playing-msg``) are subject to property expansion. +``--term-playing-msg``) are subject to property expansion. Note that property +expansion does not work in places where e.g. numeric parameters are expected. +(For example, the ``add`` command does not do property expansion. The ``set`` +command is an exception and not a general rule.) .. admonition:: Example for input.conf |