[MPlayer-DOCS] r29635 - trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Thu Sep 3 08:59:58 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:35:21PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 03:44 PM, reimar wrote:
> 
> > Author: reimar
> > Date: Wed Sep  2 21:44:15 2009
> > New Revision: 29635
> > 
> > Log:
> > Document directory-specific configuration file.
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
> > 
> > Modified: trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Wed Sep  2 21:43:05 2009	(r29634)
> > +++ trunk/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Wed Sep  2 21:44:15 2009	(r29635)
> > @@ -527,6 +527,11 @@ named 'movie.avi.conf' with the file-spe
> >  You can also put the configuration file in the same directory as the file to
> >  be played, as long as you give the \-use\-filedir\-conf option (either on the
> >  command line or in your global config file).
> > +If file-specific configuration file is found in the same directory, no file-specific
> > +one is loaded from ~/.mplayer.
> 
> "If a file-specific" - missing "a" here.
> 
> > +In addition the \-use\-filedir\-conf also enables directory-specific configuration files,
> 
> "In addition" and "also" might be argued to be redundant, though I'm not
> sure that that would be correct. Even if both are retained, there should
> probably be a comma after "addition".
> 
> > +MPlayer tries to first load a mplayer.conf from the same directory as the file played
> > +and then tries to load any file-specific configuration.
> 
> The two parts of this sentence aren't parallel. Either "MPlayer first
> tries to load ... and then tries to load" or "MPlayer tries to first
> load ... and then load" or similar would be more appropriate; I'd
> probably prefer the former, myself.

It was late when I wrote it (and now it probably is too early).
I changed it a bit more, because I think it was badly written overall.
See if it is better.


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