Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Any time you say "This means that", "More precisely", etc. please
>> check if you can rewrite it to lose everything before them (i.e. a
>> vague sentence that needs to be clarified may not have to be there
>> at all).
>
> Right.  I thought both are necessary in this case: the first sentence
> gives easy information to a first-timer.  For someone who has played
> with it a bit, and wants to know more: the second line.
>
>>> ++
>>> +It is often useful when you're looking for an exact string (like a
>>> +function prototype), and want to know the history of that string since
>>> +it first came into being.
>>
>> I think you should remind that the most useful case (and indeed the
>> intended one) is for "an exact string" to be a multi-line "block of
>> text".  People often get a (wrong) impression from the word "string"
>> that it is meant to be used with a single-liner.
>
> Yes, I've been meaning to discuss that.  I've been having some trouble
> with multi-line strings: zsh doesn't insert a TAB in the next line.
> The workaround I have is to write a shell script and execute that.
> How do you do it?

I do not use zsh but with bash+readline the old tradition lnext can
be used (see "stty -a" output and it typically is set to ^V), i.e.
\C-v followed by \C-i should give you a literal HT.

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