Documentation Update - clarification

- Added note about the lack of a need to escape shell metacharacters
  when they are used in a custom report filter (thanks to Bruce
  Dillahunty).
- Corrected wrong header tag.
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Paul Beckingham 2009-05-20 20:46:45 -04:00
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<pre><code>% task add "Buy bread &amp; milk"</code></pre> <pre><code>% task add "Buy bread &amp; milk"</code></pre>
<p> <p>
Task itself interprets the commands, and it too can make mistakes. Note that if an &amp; character (or any other character that needs
For example, any colon : character will be interpreted by task as a to be escaped for the shell) appears in the
delimiter between an attribute name and its value. Currently there <a href="filter.html">filter</a> of a
is no workaround for this. <a href="custom.html">custom report</a>
then it does not need to be escaped, as it never gets processed
by the shell. In other words, shell escapes need only be used
when typing task commands at a prompt.
</p> </p>
</div> </div>

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</tr> </tr>
</table> </table>
<h4>New in version 1.8.0 (?)</h4> <h2>New in version 1.8.0 (?)</h2>
<ul> <ul>
<li>Added zsh tab completion script (thanks to P.C. Shyamshankar). <li>Added zsh tab completion script (thanks to P.C. Shyamshankar).
<li>Fixed bug that cause the _forcecolor configuration variable to be <li>Fixed bug that cause the _forcecolor configuration variable to be