Hi Daniel, thanks for your reply,
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote on Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 22:56:28 +0300: > > I prepared a document where I investigated which characters need to be > > escaped in vim's ":!" commands of filtering the text through a shell > > command. > > The escape rules are documented: > > :help cmdline-special > > I see - thanks. I was unable to find them in: 1. vim's help. 2. DuckDuckGo search. 3. Google search. 4. asking on freenode's #vim chatroom. and the text there seems somewhat confusing. > > Executive summary: > > > > - “%”, “#”, and “!” should be escaped with a backslash (“\”). > > > > - All other punctuation/special characters (including a backslash) > > need not and should not be escaped. > > Beyond [%#!] which you mention, there are also: > > - «<cword>» and friends > > - The envvars $MYVIMRC, $VIM, $VIMRUNTIME are available (:help $VIM, > :help $MYVIMRC) > > - A literal LF (ASCII 0x0A) can't be entered (:help NL-used-for-NUL) > > thanks for the info! > Cheers, > > Daniel > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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