Re: Separating multiple user-defined commands with | (bar)

On 2013-09-18, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > :he :command-bar
>
> That certainly helped.  Thanks, Ben.
>
> so what is the correct way to say | is it actually bar?
> I have always called it pipe.... 

It depends on the context in which it's being used.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html, uses the terms

vertical line
vertical bar
absolute value

in that order of preference.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/ascii-pronunciation-rules-for-programmers.html
lists these alternatives:

bar
or
or-bar
v-bar
pipe
vertical bar
vertical line
gozinta
thru
pipesinta
spike

I think it is properly called a pipe only in the context of a shell.

All of that is the result of a quick Google search, so I wouldn't
call it authoritative. I did not find the name used, if any, by the
original ASCII standard.

Regards,
Gary

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