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@@ -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