Re: Small documentation tweak for :g delimiters

If you check the documentation for help :v, you'd see it's marked as the same 

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:50 PM Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:

Shortly after the help for :v it reads

  Instead of the '/' which surrounds the {pattern}, you can use any
  other single byte character, but not an alphabetic character,
  '\', '"' or '|'.  This is useful if you want to include a '/' in
  the search pattern or replacement string.

This makes it sounds like "!" should be a viable delimiter (as it
it is for a :s command per `:help pattern-delimiter`).  However,
it ends up turning a :g command into a :v command.

So in addition to excluding backslash, double-quote, and bar, I'd
recommend adding "!" to the list here.

-tim

discovered by unthinkingly doing a

  :g!/path/

and getting all lines that didn't contain "path" rather than all
lines that did contain "/path/".  Using an alternate delimiter like

  :g@/path/

worked as expected.  And I often use "!" as my pattern-delimiter
in substitute commands when the pattern contains "/" characters

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