From 315a9468979caec2fa8fc957971e5e105a67226b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rawtaz Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:21:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Clarify precedence of settings in config files --- doc/manual.xml.head | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual.xml.head b/doc/manual.xml.head index 51a6f0f88..b27e39348 100644 --- a/doc/manual.xml.head +++ b/doc/manual.xml.head @@ -2974,6 +2974,11 @@ color sidebar_divider color8 default When NeoMutt starts up it looks for two configuration files -- one system file and one user file. + NeoMutt first reads the system configuration file, then the user + configuration file. The two files are merged in the sense that "last + setting wins". That is, if a setting is defined in both files, the user + configuration file's value for that setting is the one that takes + precedence and becomes effective. NeoMutt searches for several different file names when looking for config. It looks for NeoMutt config files before Mutt config files and versioned config before plain config. For example: -- 2.40.0