On 09/04/11 05:50, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
KF wrote:
' is a normal command to jump to a mark where it was mark with m
command.
" is register selection for copying/moving/yanking text.

:help '
:help m
:help "

HTH.
KF

I suppose I should have asked
What is the difference between ' and ''
when used as a delimiter?
'xxx' vs "xxx"

But you have pointed up another set of overloading
on the meanings/uses of these characters.


        :help expr-string
        :help literal-string

Between double quotes, but not between single quotes, a backslash followed by some letters has special meaning. Between single quotes, a single quote is doubled(1), everything else is taken at face value.

(1) i.e., to represent the value
        &é"'(§è
        followed on the same line by a carriage return
use
        "&é\"'(§è\r"
with double quotes, or
        '&é"''(§è^M'
with single quotes (where ^M is one character, entered by Ctrl-V Enter)


HTH,
Tony.
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