From 6000d37f09046cf98f37a9f5e676024d9a836ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ac5000 <15003210+Ac5000@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:07:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Clarification to Config File Location/Name (#4533)

---
 docs/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.md | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.md b/docs/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.md
index bae72b2..6a6c939 100644
--- a/docs/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.md
+++ b/docs/usage_and_configuration/the_basics.md
@@ -478,9 +478,10 @@ operating system, this configuration file should be stored as:
   `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` environment variable is not set)
 
 Note that these are paths to the TOML file itself (meaning that they shouldn't be named
-as `pyproject.toml`), not directories where you store the configuration. Here, `~`
-refers to the path to your home directory. On Windows, this will be something like
-`C:\\Users\UserName`.
+as `pyproject.toml`), not directories where you store the configuration (i.e.,
+`black`/`.black` is the file to create and add your configuration options to, in the
+`~/.config/` directory). Here, `~` refers to the path to your home directory. On
+Windows, this will be something like `C:\\Users\UserName`.
 
 You can also explicitly specify the path to a particular file that you want with
 `--config`. In this situation _Black_ will not look for any other file.