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Tweak wording.
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author Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:28:17 -0400
parents 255d5232b0f6
children 405fe87b3cf8
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files chapters/35.markdown

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--- a/chapters/35.markdown	Fri Oct 12 19:25:40 2012 -0400
+++ b/chapters/35.markdown	Fri Oct 12 19:28:17 2012 -0400
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@
     :::vim
     :echo "abcd"[0:2]
 
-Vim displays "abc". It does not allow you to use negative indices with strings though:
+Vim displays "abc". However, you can't use negative bare indices with strings.
+You *can* use negative indices when slicing strings though!  Run the following
+command:
 
     :::vim
-    :echo "abcd"[-1] "abcd"[-1:]
+    :echo "abcd"[-1] . "abcd"[-2:]
 
-will echo " d".
+Vim displays "cd" (using a negative index silently resulted in an empty string).
 
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