On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
When used after an ex-command which expects a file name, % means the filename
of the current buffer, and # means the filename of the alternate buffer.
See
:help edit-intro
:help cmdline-special
Thanks - I didn't think of it being used like that. I certainly didn't realise that :_% referred to it! I guess in the help system, an underscore means 'something arbitrary here'.
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