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5@@ -315,9 +315,9 @@ environment variable ``AUTOSWITCH_VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR``.
6 If you wish for virtual environments to be stored within each project directory
7 then you can set the variable to use a relative path. For example:
8 9-```
10-export AUTOSWITCH_VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR=".virtualenv"
11-```
12+::
13+
14+ export AUTOSWITCH_VIRTUAL_ENV_DIR=".virtualenv"
1516 **Customising pip install invocation**
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