Sunday, November 4, 2012

Re: 'opt' vs. |'opt'| in help files

On 11:43 Sun 04 Nov , Andre Majorel wrote:
> When an option is mentioned in the help files, sometimes, it's
> "'option'", sometimes "|'option'|". Since ^] works just as well
> on the former, what's the point of adding the "|" ? Is it just a
> leftover from a time when ^] required them ?
>
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If you open the help file and set:
set cole=0

You will see that every option is written like "|'cole'|", or when they
are defined are written as "*'cole'*". The "*...*" define tags, and "|...|"
refer to them. This is how it works.

Best,
Marcin

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