Jeri Raye <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm reading some vim script.
> I was wondering about the following
> It says
> let g:expression =
> \ <all kind of code, ending with a dot> .
> \ <more code ending with a dot> .
> \ <even more code NOT ending with a dot>
>
> Question 1: Is this \ a 'line-continuation' character? In other words should
> it be read as one line?

Yes.  See  :help line-continuation

> Question 2: And what is the function of the dot?

String concatenation.  See:  :help expr-.

See also  :help eval.txt   for questions about Vim script.

Regards
-- Dominique

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