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diff --git a/doc/config.rst b/doc/config.rst
index 8e3d885b..5b159d90 100644
--- a/doc/config.rst
+++ b/doc/config.rst
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ Settings common to many kinds of reporting.
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(multi-string) A list of regular expressions. Any line of your source code
-containing a match for one of these regexes is excluded from being reported as
+containing a match for one of these regexes is excluded from being reported as
missing. More details are in :ref:`excluding`. If you use this option, you
are replacing all the exclude regexes, so you'll need to also supply the
"pragma: no cover" regex if you still want to use it.
@@ -395,12 +395,22 @@ you'll exclude any line with three or more of any character. If you write
``pass``, you'll also exclude the line ``my_pass="foo"``, and so on.
+.. _config_report_exclude_also:
+
+[report] exclude_also
+.....................
+
+(multi-string) A list of regular expressions. This setting will preserve the
+default exclude pattern instead of overwriting it. See
+:ref:`config_report_exclude_lines` for details on exclusion regexes.
+
+
.. _config_report_fail_under:
[report] fail_under
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-(float) A target coverage percentage. If the total coverage measurement is
+(float) A target coverage percentage. If the total coverage measurement is
under this value, then exit with a status code of 2. If you specify a
non-integral value, you must also set ``[report] precision`` properly to make
use of the decimal places. A setting of 100 will fail any value under 100,
diff --git a/doc/excluding.rst b/doc/excluding.rst
index 315d4e29..4651e6bb 100644
--- a/doc/excluding.rst
+++ b/doc/excluding.rst
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ For example, here's a list of exclusions I've used::
Note that when using the ``exclude_lines`` option in a configuration file, you
are taking control of the entire list of regexes, so you need to re-specify the
-default "pragma: no cover" match if you still want it to apply.
+default "pragma: no cover" match if you still want it to apply. The
+``exclude_also`` option can be used instead to preserve the default
+exclusions while adding new ones.
The regexes only have to match part of a line. Be careful not to over-match. A
value of ``...`` will match any line with more than three characters in it.