Curious remark about CTRL-V p in cmdline.txt

[glts]

Hi list,

I've found something curious in the help.

I look up :h extension-removal and read this:

> If a "<" is appended to "%", "#", "#n" or "CTRL-V p" the extension of
> the file name is removed (everything after and including the last '.'
> in the file name).

I have absolutely not the slightest what CTRL-V p might be.

I'm probably just being daft. Can anybody explain, please?

Thanks a lot,

--
David

[Tim Chase]

On 2014-01-06 12:43, glts wrote:
> I look up :h extension-removal and read this:
>
> > If a "<" is appended to "%", "#", "#n" or "CTRL-V p" the
> > extension of the file name is removed
>

> I have absolutely not the slightest what CTRL-V p might be.

I figured there must be something in the context, but I confirm that
you're the sane one and the docs are a bit wacky there. The only
"CTRL-V p" I was able to find in Vim is when you paste while in
block-wise visual mode (":help v_p"), but that has nothing to do with
filenames, let alone their extensions.

Based on the Mercurial repo, this text has been there since roughly
the original load into Mercurial ("hg blame
vim/src/doc/cmdline.txt"), so I suspect one would have to dig into
the older source archive (I don't remember whether it was CVS or SVN).

My *guess* is that the documentation intends to refer to "<cword>"
and/or "<cfile>", as below your quoted text you find examples of them
where I'd expect to see "CTRL-V p" mentioned.

-tim

[Tim Chase]

On 2014-01-06 16:42, Tim Chase wrote:
> Based on the Mercurial repo, this text has been there since roughly
> the original load into Mercurial ("hg blame
> vim/src/doc/cmdline.txt"), so I suspect one would have to dig into
> the older source archive (I don't remember whether it was CVS or
> SVN).

Sorry, that path should have been vim/runtime/doc/cmdline.txt
(s/src/runtime/)

Based on the CVS repository[1], it looks like this may have been here
since cmdline.txt was initially added/created.

-tim


[1]
http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vim/vim/runtime/doc/cmdline.txt?view=annotate#l721

[glts]

On Monday, January 6, 2014 11:47:09 PM UTC+1, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-01-06 16:42, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > Based on the Mercurial repo, this text has been there since roughly
>
> > the original load into Mercurial ("hg blame
>
> > vim/src/doc/cmdline.txt"), so I suspect one would have to dig into
>
> > the older source archive (I don't remember whether it was CVS or
>
> > SVN).
>
>
>
> Sorry, that path should have been vim/runtime/doc/cmdline.txt
>
> (s/src/runtime/)
>
>
>
> Based on the CVS repository[1], it looks like this may have been here
>
> since cmdline.txt was initially added/created.
>

You're thorough! I did an hg blame but I didn't think of going back to
the roots of Vim 5.5 in CVS ... this makes me wonder, is this the oldest
version of Vim still available? I couldn't find anything older than
Vim 5.5.

Anyway, I agree that it does now look like a doc bug.

cc-ed to vim_dev.

Best,