From b602c1fb9a9c12ce9876e21e28ddf7ad8b6556e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nicm <nicm>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 11:45:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document escaping inside conditionals, from "sadie-parayno"
 in GitHub issue 1359.

---
 tmux.1 | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tmux.1 b/tmux.1
index ee50a9fa..f9d7cb98 100644
--- a/tmux.1
+++ b/tmux.1
@@ -3574,6 +3574,21 @@ if
 is enabled, or
 .Ql no
 if not.
+Conditionals can be nested arbitrarily.
+Inside a conditional,
+.Ql \&,
+and
+.Ql }
+must be escaped as
+.Ql #,
+and
+.Ql #} ,
+unless they are part of a
+.Ql #{...}
+replacement. For example:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#{?pane_in_mode,#[fg=white#,bg=red],#[fg=red#,bg=white]}#W .
+.Ed
 .Pp
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