do not make semicolons special in the config file anymore.

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 .\" -*-nroff-*-
+.SH INCOMPABILITIES WITH MUTT
+.PP
+.nf
+\fBsemicolons and multicommands\fP
+.fi
+.IP
+Unlike mutt, madmutt does not supports multiple commands per line.  Meaning that
+semicolons (\(lq\fB;\fP\(rq) are not special characters at all, and do not need
+to be escaped anymore.  Though, if you have escaped semicolons in your rc file,
+madmutt will understand them correctly. Only multiple commands must be
+rewritten, by just splitting the commands. So it's still possible to have a
+madmuttrc that mutt understands (and the reverse too).
+.IP
+The rationale is that it's quite a common character (especially in headers as
+it's the parameter separator) and that many commands per line is not a very good
+practice for readability either. And as it was sometimes special sometimes not,
+it also complicated the parsing a lot, hence the feature has been removed.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .PP
 .BR iconv (1),