Re: Tag references and tabs in help files

On 04/11/12 17:49, stosss wrote:
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>
> Okay I read :h conceal what exactly is the benefit of this setting?
> Why would one use it?
>
Simple: To make text invisible, not just with a background and
foreground of the same colour, but actually occupying no space on the
screen.

Whether that is desirable, and in which cases, is a question of user
preference. Vim is about choice, and in fact Vim old-timers are proud of
the fact that with Vim, there are often several ways (sometimes _many_
ways) to achieve a desired result.

An example of usefulness of the feature would be to display a file
containing ANSI escape sequences: for instance, with a properly
constructed syntax script, the sequence ^[[1;35;42m (where the initial
^[ is an actual Escape) would set bright green on magenta, but the
sequence itself would be concealed by Vim just as it would be by an ANSI
terminal.


Best regards,
Tony.
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