Phil, F10 looks like it's set up to add the current character under the cursor to the '/' register, so if you have "abcdef" on the screen and hit F9 on the first character and then F10 on each subsequent one, you'll get "abcdef" in the / register (this is because you're using .= instead of = after "let @/".
.~\\ is a list of 3 characters ( '.', '~' and '\', the latter of which is escaped for the string) that you're passing to the escape function so that it will prefix them with a backslash. As to why you have these mappings, no idea I'm afraid! If you don't use them ever (which I can only assume is the case since you don't know what they do), it might be a good time to delete them. F10 will be opening the file menu on the xfce4-term because the terminal window is presumably intercepting F10 before it gets to vim. Al On 21 September 2015 at 11:31, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote: > People, > > I have these in my .vimrc file: > > nnoremap <F9> :let @/=escape(getline('.')[col('.')-1], '.~\\')<cr> > nnoremap <F10> :let @/.=escape(getline('.')[col('.')-1], '.~\\')<cr> > > I didn't get very far doing a lot of Googling, but from experimenting with > them I found F9 puts the current character under the cursor into the "/" > register but F10 opens the file menu on my xfce4-term ! What is: > > '.~\\' > > supposed to do? > > Thanks (I am putting comments into my .vimrc file as I write this . . ), > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > PO Box 896 > Cowra NSW 2794 > Australia > E-mail: [email protected] > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- http://www.cgtk.co.uk -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
