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| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/editing.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index 2f44256138..abfe466b07 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -356,7 +356,9 @@ as a wildcard when "[" is in the 'isfname' option. A simple way to avoid this is to use "path\[[]abc]", this matches the file "path\[abc]". *starstar-wildcard* -Expanding "**" is possible on Unix, Win32, macOS and a few other systems. +Expanding "**" is possible on Unix, Win32, macOS and a few other systems (but +it may depend on your 'shell' setting. It's known to work correctly for zsh; for +bash this requires at least bash version >= 4.X). This allows searching a directory tree. This goes up to 100 directories deep. Note there are some commands where this works slightly differently, see |file-searching|. |