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diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt index fedaba5ed0..5f75a0c749 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*editing.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 May 21 +*editing.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jul 25 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -354,14 +354,32 @@ file1 file2") embedded spaces must be escaped with a backslash. *wildcard* Wildcards in {file} are expanded. Which wildcards are supported depends on the system. These are the common ones: - * matches anything, including nothing ? matches one character + * matches anything, including nothing + ** matches anything, including nothing, recurses into directories [abc] match 'a', 'b' or 'c' + To avoid the special meaning of the wildcards prepend a backslash. However, on MS-Windows the backslash is a path separator and "path\[abc]" is still seen as a wildcard when "[" is in the 'isfname' option. A simple way to avoid this is to use "path\[[]abc]". Then the file "path[abc]" literally. + *starstar-wildcard* +Expanding "**" is possible on Unix, Win32, Mac OS/X and a few other systems. +This allows searching a directory tree. This goes up to 100 directories deep. +Example: > + :n **/*.txt +Finds files: + ttt.txt + subdir/ttt.txt + a/b/c/d/ttt.txt +When non-wildcard characters are used these are only matched in the first +directory. Example: > + :n /usr/inc**/*.h +Finds files: + /usr/include/types.h + /usr/include/sys/types.h + /usr/inc_old/types.h *backtick-expansion* *`-expansion* On Unix and a few other systems you can also use backticks in the file name, for example: > @@ -1406,7 +1424,7 @@ problem goes away the next day. The file searching is currently used for the 'path', 'cdpath' and 'tags' options. There are three different types of searching: -1) Downward search: +1) Downward search: *starstar* Downward search uses the wildcards '*', '**' and possibly others supported by your operating system. '*' and '**' are handled inside Vim, so they work on all operating systems. |