protocol: Fix definitions of 'string' and 'word'

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/protocol.md b/protocol.md
index ff6651b..71fee05 100644
--- a/protocol.md
+++ b/protocol.md
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ both client->server and server->client, always ends with a newline (ASCII 10)
 character.
 
 Preliminary definitions:
-- A _string_ is a series of non-zero bytes. To allow for clients written in
-  languages that automatically parse strings as UTF-8, argument strings should
-  always be valid UTF-8. However, the server currently does not care.
-- A _word_ is a string without spaces (ASCII 32) or newlines. Note that the
-  empty string is also a valid word.
+- A _string_ is a series of non-zero bytes that are not newlines (ASCII 10). To
+  allow for clients written in programming languages that automatically parse
+  strings as UTF-8, argument strings should always be valid UTF-8. However, the
+  server currently does not care.
+- A _word_ is a string without spaces (ASCII 32) (and also without newlines).
+  Note that the empty string is also a valid word.
 
 There are three kinds of messages: commands from the client, command responses
 from the server, and push messages from the server (not to be confused with push