diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0cd7b84f..cfa7ee96 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 30 April 2009
 
+* Support command sequences without a space before the semicolon, for example
+  "neww; neww" now works as well as "neww ; neww". "neww;neww" is still an
+  error.
 * previous-layout command.
 * Display the layout name in window lists.
 * Merge resize-pane-up and resize-pane-down into resize-pane with -U and -D
@@ -1236,7 +1239,7 @@
   (including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other
   customisation.
 
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.281 2009-04-30 21:17:06 nicm Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.282 2009-04-30 21:53:32 nicm Exp $
 
  LocalWords:  showw utf UTF fulvio ciriaco joshe OSC APC gettime abc DEF OA clr
  LocalWords:  rivo nurges lscm Erdely eol smysession mysession ek dstname RB ms
diff --git a/cmd-list.c b/cmd-list.c
index 963d49fe..af9e105b 100644
--- a/cmd-list.c
+++ b/cmd-list.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: cmd-list.c,v 1.3 2009-02-16 18:57:16 nicm Exp $ */
+/* $Id: cmd-list.c,v 1.4 2009-04-30 21:53:32 nicm Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2009 Nicholas Marriott <nicm@users.sourceforge.net>
@@ -28,28 +28,43 @@ cmd_list_parse(int argc, char **argv, char **cause)
 	struct cmd_list	*cmdlist;
 	struct cmd	*cmd;
 	int		 i, lastsplit;
+	size_t		 arglen, new_argc;
+	char	       **new_argv;
 
 	cmdlist = xmalloc(sizeof *cmdlist);
 	TAILQ_INIT(cmdlist);
 
 	lastsplit = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
-		if (strcmp(argv[i], "\\;") == 0) {
-			argv[i][0] = ';';
-			argv[i][1] = '\0';
-		} else if (strcmp(argv[i], ";") == 0) {
-			cmd = cmd_parse(i - lastsplit, argv + lastsplit, cause);
-			if (cmd == NULL)
-				goto bad;
-			TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(cmdlist, cmd, qentry);
-			lastsplit = i + 1;
-		}
+		arglen = strlen(argv[i]);
+		if (arglen == 0 || argv[i][arglen - 1] != ';')
+			continue;
+		argv[i][arglen - 1] = '\0';
+
+		if (arglen > 1 && argv[i][arglen - 2] == '\\') {
+			argv[i][arglen - 2] = ';';
+			continue;
+		} 
+
+		new_argc = i - lastsplit;
+		new_argv = argv + lastsplit;
+		if (arglen != 1)
+			new_argc++;
+		
+		cmd = cmd_parse(new_argc, new_argv, cause);
+		if (cmd == NULL)
+			goto bad;
+		TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(cmdlist, cmd, qentry);
+		
+		lastsplit = i + 1;
 	}
 
-	cmd = cmd_parse(argc - lastsplit, argv + lastsplit, cause);
-	if (cmd == NULL)
-		goto bad;
-	TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(cmdlist, cmd, qentry);
+	if (lastsplit != argc) {
+		cmd = cmd_parse(argc - lastsplit, argv + lastsplit, cause);
+		if (cmd == NULL)
+			goto bad;
+		TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(cmdlist, cmd, qentry);
+	}
        
 	return (cmdlist);