I was editing a mapping I have that starts with <C-\><C-O>, and wanted to change it to just <C-O>. So, I put my cursor on the first '-' and typed, da< hoping to delete just <C-\>. I discovered that the backslash acts as an escape character for the text object, and I ended up deleting most of my buffer (until it found an unmatched >). No harm, just had to press 'u', but the behavior surprised me.
I understand the usefulness of escaping things like double quotes, but I don't believe I've ever seen a syntax where '\' escapes a '>'. I believe there are few where it also escapes a single quote. Perhaps this is common code, though? So, not necessarily a bug...I was just wondering if this behavior was intentional. If so, it should probably be documented in :help text- objects. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
