On Jun 12, 9:04 am, aleCodd <[email protected]> wrote: > so, shouldn't it be "this allows the use of printable characters for > unprintable characters". > i mean, with printable characters per se (like normal dd), there wasn't any > problem to begin with.
Or perhaps something like... "This permits unprintable characters to be represented symbolically with printable sequences." I agree that it could perhaps be made clearer, albeit at the expense of being more verbose... Brett Stahlman > > but i know it is just a minor correction to make that paragraph more easy to > understand > > thanks for your reply. > > > > > > Stahlman Family wrote: > > > aleCodd wrote: > >> instead of 'printable' it should be 'unprintable'. > > > No. 'Printable' is correct. It is saying that without :execute, you > > would need to type... > > > :normal CTRL-W CTRL-W > > > ...where each CTRL-W represents a single Control character typed at the > > keyboard. The :execute command lets you use the "\<C-W>" syntax in a > > double-quoted string, and thereby avoid typing control characters. > > > :help expr-quote > > > Brett Stahlman > > > -- > > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > > For more information, visithttp://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > -- > View this message in > context:http://old.nabble.com/error-in-the-help-files-%28various.txt-line-193... > Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.- Hide quoted > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
