diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c3b4a944..6cbcd425 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 2.0.11",
  "toml",
  "unicode-segmentation",
- "unicode-width 0.1.14",
+ "unicode-width",
  "wait-timeout",
  "walkdir",
  "wild",
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "encode_unicode",
  "libc",
  "once_cell",
- "unicode-width 0.2.0",
+ "unicode-width",
  "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
@@ -1713,12 +1713,6 @@ version = "1.12.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f6ccf251212114b54433ec949fd6a7841275f9ada20dddd2f29e9ceea4501493"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "unicode-width"
-version = "0.1.14"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7dd6e30e90baa6f72411720665d41d89b9a3d039dc45b8faea1ddd07f617f6af"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
 version = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ad9f10db..bc5ff954 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ thiserror = "2.0"
 wild = { version = "2.2", optional = true }
 content_inspector = "0.2.4"
 shell-words = { version = "1.1.0", optional = true }
-unicode-width = "0.1.13"
+unicode-width = "0.2.0"
 globset = "0.4"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6053928f..03809435 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ abbr -a --position anywhere -- -h '-h | bat -plhelp'
 
 This way, you can keep on using `cp --help`, but get colorized help pages.
 
-Be aware that in some cases, `-h` may not be a shorthand of `--help` (for example with `ls`).
+Be aware that in some cases, `-h` may not be a shorthand of `--help` (for example with `ls`). In cases where you need to use `-h` 
+as a command argument you can prepend `\` to the arguement (eg. `ls \-h`) to escape the aliasing defined above. 
 
 Please report any issues with the help syntax in [this repository](https://github.com/victor-gp/cmd-help-sublime-syntax).