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author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2019-11-24 13:59:57 +1300 |
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committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2019-11-24 13:59:57 +1300 |
commit | d264457521e3d4d3d82af978bb4836e4e9953a85 (patch) | |
tree | 05523126d860cdfe150fc72a0640ed4604b7e023 /vim/vimrc | |
parent | Merge branch 'release/v7.19.0' into develop (diff) | |
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Completely rewrite an awkward comment block
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@@ -854,18 +854,20 @@ set wildignore=*~,#*#,*.7z,.DS_Store,.git,.hg,.svn,*.a,*.adf,*.asc,*.au,*.aup \,*.s3m,*.sdbm,*.sqlite,*.swf,*.swp,*.tar,*.tga,*.ttf,*.wav,*.webm,*.xbm \,*.xcf,*.xls,*.xlsx,*.xpm,*.xz,*.zip -" Allow me to be lazy and type a path to complete on the Ex command line in -" all-lowercase, and transform the consequent completion to match the -" appropriate case, like the Readline setting completion-ignore-case can be -" used for GNU Bash. -" -" As far as I can tell, despite its name, the 'wildignore' case option doesn’t -" have anything to do with the 'wildignore' option, and so files that would -" match any of those patterns only with case insensitivity implied will still -" be candidates for completion. -" -" The option wasn’t added until v7.3.72, so we need to check it exists before -" we try to set it. +" Allow me to type a path to complete on the Ex command line in all-lowercase, +" and transform the consequent completion to match the appropriate case, like +" the Readline setting ‘completion-ignore-case’ can be used for GNU Bash. +" +" When completing filenames on the command line, choose completions without +" regard to case, allowing me the ease of typing a partial path in +" all-lowercase. This is very similar to the Readline setting +" ‘completion-ignore-case’ used for Bash. +" +" The 'wildignorecase' option is not related to the similarly-named +" 'wildignore' option, nor to the +wildmenu feature. +" +" We need to check that the 'wildignorecase' option exists before we set it, +" because it wasn't added to Vim until v7.3.72: " " <https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v7.3.072> " |