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| author | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2014-11-22 19:30:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2014-11-22 19:52:47 +0100 |
| commit | a6c13d77f2f5f504c7b99e66db5f7d52c1368b8a (patch) | |
| tree | cb952691971c790a2b951dc5cac6068097355bb2 /doc/sciteco.7.template | |
| parent | 3af77d3e21cc154a24ecf37b83b217066d296ec9 (diff) | |
allow setting the "*" register as an alternative to nEB
this is more consistent with SciTECO's idea of abstract registers
and allows the currend buffer to be saved on the Q-Register stack.
This allows the idiom: [* ! ...change current buffer... ! ]*
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/sciteco.7.template')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sciteco.7.template | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index 4dd08b2..7a2e924 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -742,7 +742,24 @@ Replacement string register. Its integer part is unused. .TP .BR * " (asterisk)" -Name and id of current buffer in ring. +File name (string part) and id (numeric part) of current +buffer in ring. +The unnamed buffer has an empty name. +If the current document is a register, this returns the +name or id of the buffer last edited. +The \(lq*\(rq register may also be edited but changing its +string contents has no effect on the file name of the buffer. +Setting the numeric part of the \(lq*\(rq register, +as in \(lq1U*\(rq, is equivalent to editing a buffer by id +(e.g. \(lq1EB\fB$\fP\(rq) but is shorter since there is no +string parameter. +This allows the useful idioms of changing to the previous +buffer with \(lq-%*\fB$\fP\(rq, changing to the next +buffer with \(lq%*\fB$\fP\(rq and changing the current buffer +temporarily: +.EX +[* ! ...change current buffer... ! ]* +.EE .TP .BR $ " (Escape)" Command-line replacement register. |