[PATCH] vimdiff: clarify the sigil used for marking the buffer to save
- From
D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 24, 2025, 20:45 UTC
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- <20250324204558.76145-1-ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
The original documentation from 7b5cf8be18 (vimdiff: add tool documentation, 2022-03-30) mistakenly described the marker as an asterisk, which is the character "*". The code and examples have always looked for an arobase ("@"). ---
NB The (French) name arobase for "@" is gaining popularity in English writing but is not yet universally standard. Use of a different name when picking is fine by me.
I also did not attempt to clarify the behavior from the recent bug report [1] because I hope it is repared rather than documented.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAC6paJg19ue7W0VxTnGH-1ra3Zkk+pRnj6McEC755RD54xDzCA@mail.gmail.com/
Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.adoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.adoc b/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.adoc index befa86d692..ab915df408 100644 --- a/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.adoc +++ b/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.adoc @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ command. + -- When `MERGED` is not present in the layout, you must "mark" one of the -buffers with an asterisk. That will become the buffer you need to edit and +buffers with an arobase (`@`). That will become the buffer you need to edit and save after resolving the conflicts. .... ------------------------------------------
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