Re: Small documentation tweak for :g delimiters

Tim Chase 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

Thanks for the suggestion. I first thought this was only for ":global",
but using it with ":vglobal" gives an error "E477: No ! allowed".
Thus it can indeed be added to the list.

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