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diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index 75db5a529c..3c36d8a531 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -376,6 +376,15 @@ On Unix and a few other systems you can also use backticks for the file name argument, for example: > :next `find . -name ver\\*.c -print` :view `ls -t *.patch \| head -n1` +Vim will run the command in backticks using the 'shell' and use the standard +output as argument for the given Vim command (error messages from the shell +command will be discarded). +To see what shell command Vim is running, set the 'verbose' option to 4. When +the shell command returns a non-zero exit code, an error message will be +displayed and the Vim command will be aborted. To avoid this make the shell +always return zero like so: > + :next `find . -name ver\\*.c -print \|\| true` + The backslashes before the star are required to prevent the shell from expanding "ver*.c" prior to execution of the find program. The backslash before the shell pipe symbol "|" prevents Vim from parsing it as command |