From ece794d90572a853f5d2967117cebd050c30e8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:54:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] manpage: explain behavior of "path" property

This seems to confuse users pretty often, but I'm not going to change
its behavior.

See e.g. #2541.
---
 DOCS/man/input.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst
index 1a59f283fe..72004bf303 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/input.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst
@@ -860,7 +860,11 @@ Property list
               quantities: fps and possibly rounded timestamps.)
 
 ``path``
-    Full path of the currently played file.
+    Full path of the currently played file. Usually this is exactly the same
+    string you pass on the mpv command line or the ``loadfile`` command, even
+    if it's a relative path. If you expect an absolute path, you will have to
+    determine it yourself, for example by using the ``working-directory``
+    property.
 
 ``media-title``
     If the currently played file has a ``title`` tag, use that.