On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 7:36:34 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Tue, June 25, 2013 13:16, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > IMHO the mention of s[ubstitute] and su[spend] in the POSIX manual is > > > where the bug lies, since it implies that :su would mean _both_ :suspend > > > and :substitute. > > > > No it isn't. The standard allows either :su or :suspend > > but none of the other ways. The same is true for :substitute, > > either use :s or :substitute. There is no ambiguity as you claim. > > > > > Since the popular :s command is a well-known > > > abbreviation for :substitute, it follows (by analogy with all other > > > ex-commands used in Vim) that :su, :sub, :subs, etc. mean the same. An > > > > We also already have :si (which is short for :s using i flag), but :sil > > is used for :silent and :sl is used for sleep. >
FWIW, there is an explicit :help tag for :su meaning :substitute. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" 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/groups/opt_out.
