`conda config --describe` default configuration examples for plugin settings don't work in `.condarc` files
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What happened?
Originally discovered by @dholth
When “conda config --describe” is run, the example for shown for a plugin looks like:
plugins.setting_name: example_value
This can’t it actually be used in a .condarc file because the correct way to define it is:
plugins: setting_name: example_value
Conda Info
active environment : None shell level : 0 user config file : /Users/user/.condarc populated config files : /Users/user/.condarc conda version : 25.9.1 conda-build version : 25.9.0 python version : 3.13.5.final.0 solver : libmamba (default) virtual packages : __archspec=1=m1 __conda=25.9.1=0 __osx=15.6.1=0 __unix=0=0 base environment : /Users/user/miniconda (writable) conda av data dir : /Users/user/miniconda/etc/conda conda av metadata url : None channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/osx-arm64 https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch package cache : /Users/user/miniconda/pkgs /Users/user/.conda/pkgs envs directories : /Users/user/miniconda/envs /Users/user/.conda/envs platform : osx-arm64 user-agent : conda/25.9.1 requests/2.32.4 CPython/3.13.5 Darwin/24.6.0 OSX/15.6.1 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/25.4.0 libmambapy/2.0.5 aau/0.7.2 UID:GID : 501:20 netrc file : None offline mode : False
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