From df33d71b4e7aa05deb8a6ce0e63e4c60f301c335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:10:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update documenting description on rcParams

---
 doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst b/doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst
index 11bc9bb40586..b8d27412e300 100644
--- a/doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst
+++ b/doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst
@@ -511,15 +511,8 @@ section of the docstring.
 rcParams
 ~~~~~~~~
 rcParams can be referenced with the custom ``:rc:`` role:
-:literal:`:rc:\`foo\`` yields ``rcParams["foo"]``. Use `= [default-val]`
-to indicate the default value of the parameter. The default value should be
-literal, i.e. enclosed in double backticks. For simplicity these may be
-omitted for string default values.
-
-.. code-block:: rst
-
-  If not provided, defaults to :rc:`figure.figsize` = ``[6.4, 4.8]``.
-  If not provided, defaults to :rc:`figure.facecolor` = 'w'.
+:literal:`:rc:\`foo\`` yields ``rcParams["foo"] = 'default'``, which is a link
+to the :file:`matplotlibrc` file description.
 
 Deprecated formatting conventions
 ---------------------------------