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authorDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2021-05-07 08:02:16 -0300
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2021-05-10 11:14:57 -0300
commita7de593f7288ded65b3a5e70f1d7d045dd7f99d7 (patch)
treeeb3d929074143709abe0b1ede5b6b8b34999bf94
parent8bf331108458591a36d11487cea39282c9b5bc0d (diff)
doc: document (tersely) the intended behaviour of relative paths.
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@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ configuration file and corresponding database.
characters. In a multiple-value item (a list), the values are
separated by semicolon characters.
-The available configuration items are described below.
+The available configuration items are described below. Non-absolute
+paths are presumed relative to `$HOME` for items in section
+**database**.
**database.path**
Notmuch will store its database here, (in