Rofi version (rofi -v)

1.7.6

Configuration

https://gist.github.com/jaki/1e91c8f49be56d4ee288f71489baf459/raw/e99b21117cad712c6a537ec5174be3b40e537586/config.rasi

Theme

default

Timing report

n/a

Launch command

rofi -show run

Step to reproduce

Prepare config:

mv ~/.config/rofi ~/.config/rofi.$RANDOM
mkdir ~/.config/rofi
cat >~/.config/rofi/config.rasi <<EOT
configuration {
	matching-negate-char: '-';
}
EOT

git checkout c6f3cfb7d7c711f0a59fb364af4f74d9996c57e2~
make
./rofi -show run

...nothing wrong

git checkout c6f3cfb7d7c711f0a59fb364af4f74d9996c57e2
make
./rofi -show run

...throws error

/.../.config/rofi/config.rasi:1:16: Option: matching-negate-char needs to be set with a character not a String.

Expected behavior

nothing wrong

Actual behavior

aforementioned error

Additional information

Commit c6f3cfb breaks what PR #1131 fixed. Documentation still indicates

Character

Character value is always surrounded by single quotes (') and should contain a single character. It supports escaping.

matching-negate-char: '-';

but commit c6f3cfb goes against that. I tried reverting c6f3cfb but it causes some merge conflicts that I don't want to deal with.

Using wayland display server protocol

• No, I don't use the wayland display server protocol

I've checked if the issue exists in the latest stable release

• Yes, I have checked the problem exists in the latest stable version