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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/builtin.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt index 031d2d6fcd..bbbabea2a4 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -6962,10 +6962,11 @@ shellescape({string} [, {special}]) *shellescape()* Otherwise encloses {string} in single-quotes and replaces all "'" with "'\''". - If {special} is a |non-zero-arg|: - - Special items such as "!", "%", "#" and "<cword>" will be - preceded by a backslash. The backslash will be removed again - by the |:!| command. + The {special} argument adds additional escaping of keywords + used in Vim commands. If it is a |non-zero-arg|: + - Special items such as "!", "%", "#" and "<cword>" (as listed + in |expand()|) will be preceded by a backslash. + The backslash will be removed again by the |:!| command. - The <NL> character is escaped. If 'shell' contains "csh" in the tail: |