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author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2020-05-31 22:06:51 +0200 |
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committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2020-05-31 22:06:51 +0200 |
commit | fccd93f0917234b962ce07d1df3adf9d7105936f (patch) | |
tree | 9b5b01cb09c6fc7c445e7f59cecb12d237e4057e /runtime | |
parent | 494e9069cb32620f7688a7cb128a3feff827639e (diff) | |
download | vim-git-fccd93f0917234b962ce07d1df3adf9d7105936f.tar.gz |
patch 8.2.0867: using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nicev8.2.0867
Problem: Using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nice.
Solution: Use \<*xxx> instead, since it's the same as \<xxx> but producing a
different code.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
-rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 75936679f..fb5ef738c 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -1353,8 +1353,8 @@ A string constant accepts these special characters: To use the double quote character it must be escaped: "<M-\">". Don't use <Char-xxxx> to get a utf-8 character, use \uxxxx as mentioned above. -\{xxx} like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the - character. E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\{C-w}" is four +\<*xxx> Like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the + character. E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\<*C-w>" is four bytes: 3 for the CTRL modifier and then character "W". Note that "\xff" is stored as the byte 255, which may be invalid in some |