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patch 8.2.3219: :find searches non-existing directories Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7a4ca32175bef0f9a177052796bd9addd10dc218 Author: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> Date: Sun Jul 25 15:08:05 2021 +0200 patch 8.2.3219: :find searches non-existing directories Problem: :find searches non-existing directories. Solution: Check the path is not "..". Update help. (Christian Brabandt, closes #8612, closes #8533)
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
date Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:15:04 +0200
parents e69e7133c9cf
children bdda48f01a68
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--- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt
@@ -1749,6 +1749,12 @@ 2) Upward search:
 	/u/user_x/work/include
 	/u/user_x/include
 
+<   Note: If your 'path' setting includes an non-existing directory, Vim will
+   skip the non-existing directory, but continues searching in the parent of
+   the non-existing directory if upwards searching is used.  E.g. when
+   searching "../include" and that doesn't exist, and upward searching is
+   used, also searches in "..".
+
 3) Combined up/downward search:
    If Vim's current path is /u/user_x/work/release and you do >
 	set path=**;/u/user_x