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| author | Robin Haberkorn <rhaberkorn@fmsbw.de> | 2026-09-27 00:12:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Robin Haberkorn <rhaberkorn@fmsbw.de> | 2026-09-27 00:12:30 +0200 |
| commit | e48f1a6b5319224a92a8e7d60cbf5a4098d14ff5 (patch) | |
| tree | 466ba5783925972a079fd5921237e9f29878d35a /doc | |
| parent | e371b5fc710c597e175e6b7d7645b3a224a731a1 (diff) | |
^E at the end of a line in a string argument "swallows" the EOL character
This is similar to `\` at the line end in many languages like C and
allows you to split a very long string argument over several lines without
adding the EOL characters themselves.
The TECO equivalent to `\` would be ^Q, but it would be a semantic exception since
^Q (escaping) is supposed to _preserve_ the value of the following character.
Therefore I decided to use ^E instead.
This works with DOS and Mac line breaks as well.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sciteco.7.template | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index 14aee77..86ca68f 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -1878,6 +1878,11 @@ Analogous to \fB^V\fP, but upper-cases characters. Since \fB^W\fP is an immediate editing command, this can practically be typed only with upcarets in interactive mode. .TP +.SCITECO_TOPIC ^E^J ^E^M^J ^E^M +.BI ^E eol +\fB^E\fP followed by an end of line character (LF, CRLF or CR) is ignored, +so you can split a long string argument over several lines. +.TP .SCITECO_TOPIC ^E\[rs] ^E\[rs]q .BI ^E\(rs q Expands to the formatted number stored in the |