Shlomi Fish wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 15:38:42 +0300:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> thanks for your reply,
>
You're welcome.
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Shahaf
> <d.s-dgtty7x8zficcafzklukruemvnt87...@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Shlomi Fish wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 22:56:28 +0300:
> > > I prepared a document where I investigated which characters need to be
> > > escaped in vim's ":!" commands of filtering the text through a shell
> > > command.
> >
> > The escape rules are documented:
> >
> > :help cmdline-special
> >
> >
> I see - thanks. I was unable to find them in:
>
> 1. vim's help.
>
I found it by doing:
:help c_%
to find the place where the s/%/current buffer's name/ transformation is
documented, and then scrolling up to the enclosing section's header.
That relied on knowing the tagname convention documented in :h help-context.
> 2. DuckDuckGo search.
>
> 3. Google search.
>
> 4. asking on freenode's #vim chatroom.
>
> and the text there seems somewhat confusing.
>
You might want to take the unclarity of the help text with vim upstream,
then. (I.e., to file a docs bug)
Cheers,
Daniel
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