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authorTamara Dahlgren <35777542+tldahlgren@users.noreply.github.com>2024-10-14 21:07:48 -0700
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Docs: reduce confusion in configuration override of scope precedence section (#46977)
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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/configuration.rst b/lib/spack/docs/configuration.rst
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--- a/lib/spack/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ When spack queries for configuration parameters, it searches in
higher-precedence scopes first. So, settings in a higher-precedence file
can override those with the same key in a lower-precedence one. For
list-valued settings, Spack *prepends* higher-precedence settings to
-lower-precedence settings. Completely ignoring higher-level configuration
+lower-precedence settings. Completely ignoring lower-precedence configuration
options is supported with the ``::`` notation for keys (see
:ref:`config-overrides` below).