On 05/09/13 02:04, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2013-09-05, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Using :%g/^! on the tags file shows that there are no other tags
starting with an exclamation mark, which is not surprising since the
tags file is sorted.
I see in $VIMRUNTIME/doc/tags that the tags are indeed sorted. In
that case, why does :help !<C-D> produce this horrific mess?
:help !
:! /\@! :edit! expr-!~# win16-!start
:!! :no! :enew! expr-!~? win32-!start
:#! /\@<! :mapc! :edit!_f :noremap!
:_! :ene! :read! :map_l! viminfo-!
:r! :map! expr-! :range! :mapclear!
:w! :unm! expr-!= :retab!
v_! cpo-! expr-!~ :unmap!
:!cmd tag-! expr-!=# :args_f!
:!start :set-! expr-!=? :buffer-!
In this and other cases of :help <something><C-D>, you pretty much
have to read every item because there is no apparent order to the
list.
And yet Vim generates them in some specific order. The list is to be
read columnwise (the leftmost column top to bottom, then the next column
top to bottom, etc.), and Vim tries to place the "most relevant" results
first. This is explained under ":help tag-priority". Results of equal
relevancy are output (IIUC) shortest-first, then alphabetically.
(Yes, the exclamation points appear farther to the right in later
entries, but that is not useful and is not even true in general, as
":buffer-!" precedes "win16-!start".)
I generated this from Vim 7.4.9 started as
vim -N -u NONE
on Linux.
Regards,
Gary
Best regards,
Tony.
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