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> If your set options are that quirky / need documentation; why not explain them in a README?

Mostly because I don't know whether the person customizing my code will read the README, but they'll definitely see the comments I wrote right before the configuration option itself.

With comments and some extra whitespace, they can go through the file line by line, read what a specific option does, configure it properly, and move on to the next one. No back and forth to the README required.




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