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Doc update.

* db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs:
  config.txt: document behavior of backslashes in subsections
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@ -41,11 +41,13 @@ in the section header, like in the example below:
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Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
newline (doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them
as `\"` and `\\`, respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.
newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included
by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding
other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as
`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You
can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't
need to.
There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also