From 61dba9967975d4a48d33776449c627c11f9bd365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Vazgenovich Shakaryan <dvshakaryan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 14:14:28 -0800
Subject: support config overrides

---
 config.lua |  8 ++++++++
 util.lua   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config.lua b/config.lua
index e4a9c82..6708d83 100644
--- a/config.lua
+++ b/config.lua
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 -- Copyright 2025 David Vazgenovich Shakaryan
 
+local util = require('util')
+
+local mp_options = require('mp.options')
 local mp_utils = require('mp.utils')
 
 local config = {}
@@ -68,4 +71,9 @@ config.cache_dir = mp_utils.join_path(script_dir, 'cache')
 config.img_dir = mp_utils.join_path(script_dir, 'img')
 config.favourites_file = mp_utils.join_path(script_dir, 'favourites.json')
 
+-- flatten keys into `foo.bar.baz' form for script-opt overrides
+local opts = util.flatten_table(config)
+mp_options.read_options(opts)
+util.unflatten_table(opts, config)
+
 return config
diff --git a/util.lua b/util.lua
index 99bba7b..d678a9e 100644
--- a/util.lua
+++ b/util.lua
@@ -125,6 +125,36 @@ function util.stable_kmerge(t, u, k)
 	return res
 end
 
+function util.flatten_table(src, dst, prefix)
+	local dst = dst or {}
+	for k, v in pairs(src) do
+		local k = prefix and prefix .. '.' .. k or k
+		if type(v) == 'table' then
+			util.flatten_table(v, dst, k)
+		else
+			dst[k] = v
+		end
+	end
+	return dst
+end
+
+function util.unflatten_table(src, dst)
+	local dst = dst or {}
+	for k, v in pairs(src) do
+		local t = dst
+		local prev
+		for curr in (k .. '.'):gmatch('(.-)%.') do
+			if prev then
+				t[prev] = t[prev] or {}
+				t = t[prev]
+			end
+			prev = curr
+		end
+		t[prev] = v
+	end
+	return dst
+end
+
 function util.str_seek_prev_char(str, pos)
 	return util.utf8_seek(str, pos, -1)
 end
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