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| author | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2021-07-25 15:08:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2021-07-25 15:08:05 +0200 |
| commit | 7a4ca32175bef0f9a177052796bd9addd10dc218 (patch) | |
| tree | a97843cf615b86a4ad7dd221746cb5454df24a2f /runtime/doc/editing.txt | |
| parent | 8a4c812ede5b01a8e71082c1ff4ebfcbf1bd515f (diff) | |
patch 8.2.3219: :find searches non-existing directoriesv8.2.3219
Problem: :find searches non-existing directories.
Solution: Check the path is not "..". Update help. (Christian Brabandt,
closes #8612, closes #8533)
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc/editing.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/editing.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index 2331798689..6bc245abcb 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -1749,6 +1749,12 @@ There are three different types of searching: /u/user_x/work/include /u/user_x/include +< Note: If your 'path' setting includes an non-existing directory, Vim will + skip the non-existing directory, but continues searching in the parent of + the non-existing directory if upwards searching is used. E.g. when + searching "../include" and that doesn't exist, and upward searching is + used, also searches in "..". + 3) Combined up/downward search: If Vim's current path is /u/user_x/work/release and you do > set path=**;/u/user_x |