diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md
index 1f88a0c07..7511c8c1f 100644
--- a/docs/api.md
+++ b/docs/api.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ value should be a string or an array of strings.
Get the arguments as a plain old object.
-Arguments without a corresponding flag show up in the `argv._` array.
+Arguments without a corresponding flag show up in the `argv._` array. Note that elements of `argv._` may be [converted to numbers](/docs/tricks.md#numbers) by default.
The script name or node command is available at `argv.$0` similarly to how `$0`
works in bash or perl.
@@ -1335,13 +1335,21 @@ for details of this object
------------
`parserConfiguration()` allows you to configure advanced yargs features.
-`obj` accepts the following configuration options:
+See [yargs-parser's configuration](https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser#configuration) for valid configuration options. Yargs also supports the following options:
* `sort-commands` when set to `true` (boolean) will sort the commands added, the default is `false`.
-For additional configuration options, see [yargs-parser's configuration](https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser#configuration).
-
-_Note: configuration should be top level keys on the `obj` passed to `parserConfiguration`, not populated under the configuration key, as in `yargs-parser`._
+```js
+yargs.parserConfiguration({
+ "short-option-groups": true,
+ "camel-case-expansion": true,
+ "dot-notation": true,
+ "parse-numbers": true,
+ "parse-positional-numbers": true,
+ "boolean-negation": true,
+ "deep-merge-config": false
+})
+```
.pkgConf(key, [cwd])
diff --git a/docs/tricks.md b/docs/tricks.md
index d43cb62e2..8536629d7 100644
--- a/docs/tricks.md
+++ b/docs/tricks.md
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ one. This way you can just `net.createConnection(argv.port)` and you can add
numbers out of `argv` with `+` without having that mean concatenation,
which is super frustrating.
+You can change this behavior by calling [`parserConfiguration()`](/docs/api.md#parserConfiguration)
+or by explicitly specifying [`string`](/docs/api.md/#string) for your flags.
+
Arrays
----------