On 2016-08-20 16:37:08 +0000, Bram Moolenaar said:
Patch 7.4.2231
Problem: ":oldfiles" output is a very long list.
Solution: Add a pattern argument. (Coot, closes #575)
Upon reading the manual, I was (naively) thinking that it is not
necessary to enclose the pattern between delimiters unless the
pattern contains a bar. In fact, if I try something like:
:oldfiles cpp$
it works as expected.
However, when I try
:oldfiles ^vim
or
:oldfiles .cpp
I get
E682: Invalid search pattern or delimiter
I guess that if the first character is a non-ID character, it is
always interpreted as a pattern delimiter.
Two things:
1. Maybe the help could be made clearer by explicitly saying that
"Without the enclosing character the pattern cannot include the bar
character *and it cannot start with a non-ID character*.
2. The asymmetry between xxx$ and ^xxx is a bit counterintuitive:
wouldn't it be better to assume that the first character is a
pattern delimiter if it is a non-ID *and* it is equal to the last
character?
Nicola
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