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diff --git a/README b/README index 8ae615153..9b1b1605f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ affects you, make the implied colons in the first pattern explicit, as in: zstyle ':foo:*:baz:*' style value2 This will use value1 in both 5.8 and 5.9. +Elements of the region_highlight array have gained a fourth space-separated +field. Code written against 5.9 that sets the new field may break under 5.8: +for example, the element "0 20 bold memo=foo", which is valid under 5.9, would +not work under 5.8. (Under the hood, 5.8 does not recognize the space as +terminating the highlighting specification.) On the other hand, code that does +not set the new, fourth field will continue to work under both 5.8 and 5.9. +(As it happens, adding a comma after "bold" will make both 5.8 and 5.9 do the +right thing, but this should be viewed as an unsupported hack.) + Incompatibilities between 5.7.1 and 5.8 --------------------------------------- |