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diff --git a/README b/README index 9de5eb4a9..019294e4b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ The "f" qualifier has for many years been the documented way of testing file modes; it allows the "and" test ("*(f+1)" is the documented equivalent of "*(1)") as well as many other forms. +5) The completion helper function _arguments now escapes both backslashes +and colons in the values of option arguments when populating the $opt_args +associative array. Previously, colons were escaped with a backslash but +backslashes were not themselves escaped with a backslash, which lead to +ambiguity: if the -x option took two arguments (as in + _arguments : -x:foo:${action}:bar:$action +), it would be impossible to tell from $opt_args whether the command-line +was '-x foo\:bar' or '-x foo\\ bar'. + Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.2 --------------------------------------- |