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@@ -4014,8 +4014,15 @@ items({dict}) *items()*
jobsend({job}, {data}) {Nvim} *jobsend()*
Send data to {job} by writing it to the stdin of the process.
+ Returns 1 if the write succeeded, 0 otherwise.
See |job-control| for more information.
+ {data} may be a string, string convertible, or a list. If
+ {data} is a list, the items will be separated by newlines and
+ any newlines in an item will be sent as a NUL. For example: >
+ :call jobsend(j, ["abc", "123\n456"])
+< will send "abc<NL>123<NUL>456<NL>".
+
jobstart({name}, {prog}[, {argv}]) {Nvim} *jobstart()*
Spawns {prog} as a job and associate it with the {name} string,
which will be used to match the "filename pattern" in