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diff runtime/doc/builtin.txt @ 34620:abc7a647c83b v9.1.0199
patch 9.1.0199: Not enough tests for the slice() function
Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/ad38769030b5fa86aa0e8f1f0b4266690dfad4c9
Author: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Date: Sat Mar 23 08:23:48 2024 +0100
patch 9.1.0199: Not enough tests for the slice() function
Problem: Not enough tests for the slice() function.
Solution: Test with multibyte chars, and in both Legacy and Vim9 script.
Update docs to be clearer about how it treats composing chars.
(zeertzjq)
closes: #14275
Signed-off-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
| author | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:30:06 +0100 |
| parents | 0adcad161c46 |
| children | 5b25ec43f208 |
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--- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Mar 14 +*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 Mar 23 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -9068,7 +9068,8 @@ slice({expr}, {start} [, {end}]) *slic Similar to using a |slice| "expr[start : end]", but "end" is used exclusive. And for a string the indexes are used as character indexes instead of byte indexes, like in - |vim9script|. Also, composing characters are not counted. + |vim9script|. Also, composing characters are treated as a + part of the preceding base character. When {end} is omitted the slice continues to the last item. When {end} is -1 the last item is omitted. Returns an empty value if {start} or {end} are invalid. @@ -9465,8 +9466,8 @@ strcharpart({src}, {start} [, {len} [, { of byte index and length. When {skipcc} is omitted or zero, composing characters are counted separately. - When {skipcc} set to 1, Composing characters are ignored, - similar to |slice()|. + When {skipcc} set to 1, composing characters are treated as a + part of the preceding base character, similar to |slice()|. When a character index is used where a character does not exist it is omitted and counted as one character. For example: > @@ -9484,7 +9485,7 @@ strchars({string} [, {skipcc}]) *str in String {string}. When {skipcc} is omitted or zero, composing characters are counted separately. - When {skipcc} set to 1, Composing characters are ignored. + When {skipcc} set to 1, composing characters are ignored. |strcharlen()| always does this. Returns zero on error.