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Support . (dot) as end marker for heredoc

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Review the referenced Vim pull request #5916 and commit 6c2b7b8055b96463f78abb70f58c4c6d6d4b9d55 first; this issue names no files or tests. Done means the Vim script parser supports a dot as the end marker for a heredoc.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

missing
Dominant language
Vim Script
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173
Forks
28
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