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diff --git a/DOCS/man/input.rst b/DOCS/man/input.rst index 12cb75afde..d890471de2 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/input.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/input.rst @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ a number of other places. | | ``<command> ::= [<prefixes>] <command_name> (<argument>)*`` -| ``<argument> ::= (<unquoted> | " <double_quoted> " | `X <custom_quoted> X`)`` +| ``<argument> ::= (<unquoted> | " <double_quoted> " | ' <single_quoted> ' | `X <custom_quoted> X`)`` ``command_name`` is an unquoted string with the command name itself. See `List of Input Commands`_ for a list. @@ -171,14 +171,21 @@ Arguments are separated by whitespaces even if the command expects only one argument. Arguments with whitespaces or other special characters must be quoted, or the command cannot be parsed correctly. -Double quoted arguments start and end with ``"``. Custom quotes start with ````` -(back-quote) followed by any ASCII character, and end in the same pair in -reverse order, e.g. ```-foo-``` or ````bar````. The final pair sequence is not -allowed inside the string - in these examples ``-``` and `````` respectively. +Double quotes interpret JSON/C-style escaping, like ``\t`` or ``\"`` or ``\\``. +JSON escapes according to RFC 8259, minus surrogate pair escapes. This is the +only form which allows newlines at the value - as ``\n``. -Custom quotes take their content literally, while inside double quotes -JSON/C-style escaping can be used. JSON escapes according to RFC 8259, minus -surrogate pair escapes, should be a safe subset that can be used. +Single quotes take the content literally, and cannot include the single-quote +character at the value. + +Custom quotes also take the content literally, but are more flexible than single +quotes. They start with ````` (back-quote) followed by any ASCII character, +and end at the first occurance of the same pair in reverse order, e.g. +```-foo-``` or ````bar````. The final pair sequence is not allowed at the +value - in these examples ``-``` and `````` respectively. In the second +example the last character of the value also can't be a back-quote. + +Mixed quoting at the same argument, like ``'foo'"bar"``, is not supported. Note that argument parsing and property expansion happen at different stages. First, arguments are determined as described above, and then, where applicable, |