From 4219939c10980051a6d272853c96b6e1931639b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nicm <nicm>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:14:16 +0000
Subject: Make it so that if a window or session target is prefixed with an =,
 only an exact name or index match is accepted, no special character, prefix
 match, or fnmatch.

---
 tmux.1 | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tmux.1')

diff --git a/tmux.1 b/tmux.1
index fbf0e180..7ad33530 100644
--- a/tmux.1
+++ b/tmux.1
@@ -404,6 +404,14 @@ An
 pattern which is matched against the session name.
 .El
 .Pp
+If the session name is prefixed with a
+.Ql = : ,
+only an exact match is accepted (so
+.Ql =mysess
+will only match exactly
+.Ql mysess ,
+not
+.Ql mysession ) .
 If a single session is found, it is used as the target session; multiple matches
 produce an error.
 If a session is omitted, the current session is used if available; if no
@@ -440,6 +448,9 @@ As an
 pattern matched against the window name.
 .El
 .Pp
+Like sessions, a
+.Ql =
+prefix will do an exact match only.
 An empty window name specifies the next unused index if appropriate (for
 example the
 .Ic new-window
-- 
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