Strange behaviour for tags with dashes

[Zebradil]

If I try to add a tag with dash (-) inside it, the tag will be placed as continuation of task title instead of placing in tags list. The same thing happens for /. For \ app is crashed completely.

[Zebradil]

It's not strange, it's an expected behaviour. From Taskwarrior docs:

A tag may be any single word that does not start with a digit, punctuation, or mathematical operator.

I'll investigate about crash caused by \ symbol.

[Zebradil]

So, the problem with Taskwarrior itself. It handles escaped special characters incorrectly.

Just an example, what's going on:

/opt/app # task add test +one\\two
Created task 1.
/opt/app # task
[task next]

ID Age Tag   Description Urg
 1 5s  one  wo  test         0.8

1 task
/opt/app # task 1 mod +one\\three
Modifying task 1 'test'.
Modified 1 task.
/opt/app # task
[task next]

ID Age Tag           Description Urg
 1 30s one  hree one    wo   test         0.9

1 task
/opt/app # cat /root/.task/backlog.data
{"description":"test","entry":"20180528T012236Z","modified":"20180528T012236Z","status":"pending","tags":["one  wo"],"uuid":"df115a4c-164e-4a34-99c8-6850d2414fd5"}
{"description":"test","entry":"20180528T012236Z","modified":"20180528T012302Z","status":"pending","tags":["one  wo","one    hree"],"uuid":"df115a4c-164e-4a34-99c8-6850d2414fd5"}

Notice, that there are two tasks with the same uuid in the backlog file.

[Zebradil]

I'll create an issue in TW repo. But for now we could prevent app from crashing by filtering out such symbols, or forbid to save such data.