Monday, December 24, 2018

Re: slight correction in online help under Magic \V

On 2018-12-24, L A Walsh wrote:
> This sentence:
>
> Use of "\V" means that in the pattern after it only the backslash and the
> terminating character (/ or ?) has a special meaning. "very nomagic"
>
> Should be:
>
> Use of "\V" means that in the pattern after it only the backslash and
> terminating characters have a special meaning. "very nomagic"
>
> Example:
> pattern: "The example file is /etc/passwd?"
> :s!\V/etc/passwd?!/etc_passwd\!!
> Becomes: "The example file is /etc_passwd!"
>
> (Point: terminator is not always '/' or '?')

I think that the reference to '/' and '?' should remain, at least as
examples of terminating characters. Otherwise, the reader is likely
left wondering what the heck a terminating character is.

Regards,
Gary

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