patch 8.2.0867: using {xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nice Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/fccd93f0917234b962ce07d1df3adf9d7105936f Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun May 31 22:06:51 2020 +0200 patch 8.2.0867: using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nice Problem: Using \{xxx} for encoding a modifier is not nice. Solution: Use \<*xxx> instead, since it's the same as \<xxx> but producing a different code.

> +0&#ffffff0@11
|~+0&#e0e0e08| @10
|~| @10
|~| @6|o+0#0000001#ffd7ff255|t|h|e
|~+0#0000000#e0e0e08| @6|r+0#0000001#ffd7ff255| |t|a
|~+0#0000000#e0e0e08| @6|b+0#0000001#ffd7ff255| @2
|~+0#0000000#e0e0e08| @6|a+0#0000001#ffd7ff255| |c+0#ff404010&|o
|~+0#0000000#e0e0e08| @6|m+0#ff404010#ffd7ff255@1|e|n
|~+0#0000000#e0e0e08| @6|t+0#ff404010#ffd7ff255| +0#0000001&|l|i
| +0#0000000#ffffff0@5|0|,|n+0#0000001#ffd7ff255|e| @1