diff runtime/doc/options.txt @ 25978:40b17deb294f v8.2.3522

patch 8.2.3522: cannot use x and u when setting 'listchars' Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/93ff6720fe4427341bc426b6d46e6324f226c270 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Oct 16 17:51:40 2021 +0100 patch 8.2.3522: cannot use \x and \u when setting 'listchars' Problem: Cannot use \x and \u when setting 'listchars'. Solution: Support hex and unicode in hex form. (closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/9006)
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
date Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:00:03 +0200
parents 416237f1de22
children aade8ef975d5
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/runtime/doc/options.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/options.txt
@@ -4978,6 +4978,13 @@ A jump table for the options with a shor
 	be used when 'encoding' is "utf-8", otherwise only printable
 	characters are allowed.  All characters must be single width.
 
+	Each character can be specified as hex: >
+		set listchars=eol:\\x24
+		set listchars=eol:\\u21b5
+		set listchars=eol:\\U000021b5
+<	Note that a double backslash is used.  The number of hex characters
+	must be exactly 2 for \\x, 4 for \\u and 8 for \\U.
+
 	Examples: >
 	    :set lcs=tab:>-,trail:-
 	    :set lcs=tab:>-,eol:<,nbsp:%