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authorBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2020-05-31 22:06:51 +0200
committerBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2020-05-31 22:06:51 +0200
commitfccd93f0917234b962ce07d1df3adf9d7105936f (patch)
tree9b5b01cb09c6fc7c445e7f59cecb12d237e4057e /runtime
parent494e9069cb32620f7688a7cb128a3feff827639e (diff)
patch 8.2.0867: using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nicev8.2.0867
Problem: Using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nice. Solution: Use \<*xxx> instead, since it's the same as \<xxx> but producing a different code.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
-rw-r--r--runtime/doc/eval.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 75936679f9..fb5ef738c8 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -1353,8 +1353,8 @@ A string constant accepts these special characters:
To use the double quote character it must be escaped: "<M-\">".
Don't use <Char-xxxx> to get a utf-8 character, use \uxxxx as
mentioned above.
-\{xxx} like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the
- character. E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\{C-w}" is four
+\<*xxx> Like \<xxx> but prepends a modifier instead of including it in the
+ character. E.g. "\<C-w>" is one character 0x17 while "\<*C-w>" is four
bytes: 3 for the CTRL modifier and then character "W".
Note that "\xff" is stored as the byte 255, which may be invalid in some