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diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index 7dea905c2b..d2b9374143 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*editing.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Jul 28 +*editing.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Aug 25 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ Finds files: 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` 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 @@ -398,13 +399,11 @@ The expression can contain just about anything, thus this can also be used to avoid the special meaning of '"', '|', '%' and '#'. However, 'wildignore' does apply like to other wildcards. -Environment variables are expanded before evaluating the expression, thus this -does not work: > - :e `=$HOME . '.vimrc'` -Because $HOME is expanding early, resulting in: > - :e `=/home/user . '.vimrc'` -This does work: > - :e `=expand('$HOME') . '.vimrc'` +Environment variables in the expression are expanded when evaluating the +expression, thus this works: > + :e `=$HOME . '/.vimrc'` +This does not work, $HOME is inside a string and used literally: > + :e `='$HOME' . '/.vimrc'` If the expression returns a string then names are to be separated with line breaks. When the result is a |List| then each item is used as a name. Line |