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diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index 13b953ed60..f77db5fab3 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -345,9 +345,9 @@ escaped with a backslash. Wildcards in {file} are expanded, but as with file completion, 'wildignore' and 'suffixes' apply. Which wildcards are supported depends on the system. These are the common ones: - ? matches one character - * matches anything, including nothing - ** matches anything, including nothing, recurses into directories + `?` matches one character + `*` matches anything, including nothing + `**` matches anything, including nothing, recurses into directories [abc] match 'a', 'b' or 'c' To avoid the special meaning of the wildcards prepend a backslash. However, @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ external command, by putting an equal sign right after the first backtick, e.g.: > :e `=tempname()` The expression can contain just about anything, thus this can also be used to -avoid the special meaning of '"', '|', '%' and '#'. However, 'wildignore' +avoid the special meaning of '"', "|", '%' and '#'. However, 'wildignore' does apply like to other wildcards. Environment variables in the expression are expanded when evaluating the @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ changed. This is done for all *.c files. Example: > :args *.[ch] :argdo %s/\<my_foo\>/My_Foo/ge | update -This changes the word "my_foo" to "My_Foo" in all *.c and *.h files. The "e" +This changes the word "my_foo" to "My_Foo" in all "*.c" and "*.h" files. The "e" flag is used for the ":substitute" command to avoid an error for files where "my_foo" isn't used. ":update" writes the file only if changes were made. @@ -1276,8 +1276,8 @@ unmodified. For MS-Windows you can modify the filters that are used in the browse dialog. By setting the g:browsefilter or b:browsefilter variables, you can change the filters globally or locally to the buffer. The variable is set to -a string in the format "{filter label}\t{pattern};{pattern}\n" where {filter -label} is the text that appears in the "Files of Type" comboBox, and {pattern} +a string in the format "{filter label}\t{pattern};{pattern}\n" where "{filter +label}" is the text that appears in the "Files of Type" comboBox, and {pattern} is the pattern which filters the filenames. Several patterns can be given, separated by ';'. @@ -1576,8 +1576,8 @@ which is slightly different. There are three different types of searching: 1) Downward search: *starstar* - Downward search uses the wildcards '*', '**' and possibly others - supported by your operating system. '*' and '**' are handled inside Vim, + Downward search uses the wildcards "*", "**" and possibly others + supported by your operating system. "*" and "**" are handled inside Vim, so they work on all operating systems. Note that "**" only acts as a special wildcard when it is at the start of a name. @@ -1585,12 +1585,12 @@ There are three different types of searching: search pattern this would be ".*". Note that the "." is not used for file searching. - '**' is more sophisticated: + "**" is more sophisticated: - It ONLY matches directories. - It matches up to 30 directories deep by default, so you can use it to search an entire directory tree - The maximum number of levels matched can be given by appending a number - to '**'. + to "**". Thus '/usr/**2' can match: > /usr /usr/include @@ -1601,14 +1601,14 @@ There are three different types of searching: .... < It does NOT match '/usr/include/g++/std' as this would be three levels. - The allowed number range is 0 ('**0' is removed) to 100 + The allowed number range is 0 ("**0" is removed) to 100 If the given number is smaller than 0 it defaults to 30, if it's bigger than 100 then 100 is used. The system also has a limit on the path length, usually 256 or 1024 bytes. - - '**' can only be at the end of the path or be followed by a path + - "**" can only be at the end of the path or be followed by a path separator or by a number and a path separator. - You can combine '*' and '**' in any order: > + You can combine "*" and "**" in any order: > /usr/**/sys/* /usr/*tory/sys/** /usr/**2/sys/* |