Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/3/19 6:19 PM, Jim Monte wrote:

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> Documentation of the :h and :t modifiers in section 9.3.3 is incomplete.
> :h removes the last / and everything after it if a / is present. Otherwise
> it does nothing.
>
> :t removes everything before and including the last / if one is present.
> Otherwise it does nothing.

I'm comfortable with the existing language, which is the same as the csh
documentation.

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> Documentation of the :r and :e modifiers is incomplete.
> :r removes the last ".suffix" and everything after it, if a ".suffix" is
> present. Otherwise it does nothing.
> :e leaves the last ".suffix" and everything after it, if a ".suffix" is
> present. Otherwise it does nothing.

I'm comfortable with the existing language.


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> Documentation of :q and :x is incomplete.
> If :q and :x are repeated, the last specification is taken.

Yes, I'll note that q and x are mutually exclusive, last one wins.

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> Finally, documentation of G should mention that it can be used with both :s
> and &.

Good catch.

Chet
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