use cases for <EOL>?

[Xavier Noria]

I was reading :h key-notation and saw <EOL> which is meant to be a portable newline.

When is <EOL> helpful? Should portable map commands use <EOL> instead of <CR> for example?

[Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov]

2016-08-17 11:10 GMT+03:00 Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com>:
> I was reading :h key-notation and saw <EOL> which is meant to be a portable newline.
>
> When is <EOL> helpful? Should portable map commands use <EOL> instead of <CR> for example?

It is for help files only. `<EOL>` in rhs of the mapping does exactly
the same thing `<LT>EOL>`, `echo "\<EOL>"` displays `<EOL>`. The only
place where `<EOL>` is special is help file *text*, check `:helpgrep
\c<EOL>`.

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[Xavier Noria]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov <zyx...@gmail.com> wrote:

2016-08-17 11:10 GMT+03:00 Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com>:
> I was reading :h key-notation and saw <EOL> which is meant to be a portable newline.
>
> When is <EOL> helpful? Should portable map commands use <EOL> instead of <CR> for example?

It is for help files only. `<EOL>` in rhs of the mapping does exactly
the same thing `<LT>EOL>`, `echo "\<EOL>"` displays `<EOL>`. The only
place where `<EOL>` is special is help file *text*, check `:helpgrep
\c<EOL>`.

Awesome, thanks!