The :h modifier

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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:

> Of course for full support we should do something or //server/share
> and x:\path but it is way too much currently. Actually at some point I
> guess we silently decided to not discuss any issues with \ as
> directory separator :-)

We didn't "silently" decide that -- as I recall it was pretty noisy.

It's a bit difficult to do a search for this sort of thing in the
archives, but see for example the thread from 2000 with ":r modifier"
in the subject.