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diff --git a/README b/README index 019294e4b..d146d4b16 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -91,10 +91,15 @@ equivalent of "*(1)") as well as many other forms. 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 +ambiguity: '-x foo\:bar' (one argument with a backslashed colon) and +'-x foo\\ bar' (two arguments, and the first one ends in a backslash) would +both set $opt_args[-x] to the same value. This example assumes the -x +option's spec declared two arguments, as in: _arguments : -x:foo:${action}:bar:$action -), it would be impossible to tell from $opt_args whether the command-line -was '-x foo\:bar' or '-x foo\\ bar'. + +For the more common case of non-repeatable options that take a single +argument, completion functions now have to unescape not only colons but +also backslashes when obtaining the option's argument from $opt_args. Incompatibilities between 5.0.8 and 5.2 --------------------------------------- |