Debian Bug report logs - #781645
vim-common: man page swap filename description forgot the prepended "."

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From: peej <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: vim-common: man page swap filename description forgot the prepended "."

Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:13:26 +0200

Package: vim-common
Version: 2:7.3.547-7
Severity: minor


Dear Maintainer,

While trying to recover .swp file after a hard shutdown, I looked up the
man page for the -r option. Then had trouble recovering the .swp
file because the relevant text in /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz says:


       -r {file}   Recovery mode.  The swap file is used to recover a crashed
                   editing session.  The swap file is a file with the same
                   filename as the text file with ".swp" appended.  See ":help
                   recovery".

I suggest:

       -r {file}   Recovery mode.  The swap file is used to recover a crashed
                   editing session.  The swap file is a file with the same
                   filename as the text file, but with "." prepended, and
                   with ".swp" appended.  See ":help recovery".


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages vim-common depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-38+deb7u8

Versions of packages vim-common recommends:
ii  vim       2:7.3.547-7
ii  vim-tiny  2:7.3.547-7

vim-common suggests no packages.

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