Basti Grembowietz wrote:
> >> I'm glad you managed to figure out the problem and suggest a patch.
> >> However, I think this is the wrong place to fix it. The "\(" in
> >> 'backupskip' must be seen as a special item in the pattern, after all
> >> it
> >> is a list of patterns and "\(" is a regexp item.
> >>
> >> We better make sure that when there are special things in $TEMP they
> >> are
> >> escaped when put in 'backupskip'. So that $TEMP is taken literally.
> >> That is in set_init_1(), around line 3000. Perhaps you can make a
> >> patch
> >> for that?
> > After thinking of how escaping the backslash to that it would be
> > recogniced
> > as such (as adding a simple backslash to the path wouldn't help) I
> > decided
> > to go the other way round - and replaced the bracket by the
> > all-matching '.'
> >
> > This solution works fine for the matching of the paths and is not too
> > much
> > overhead. The code is now set to only convert '(' and ')', but can
> > easily be
> > extended to convert other characters which would break the regex as
> > well.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Basti
>
> Now I also fixed my fix =) Replacing the character in the
> directory-string directly by '.'
> resulted in an escaped '\.' . I now use '?', this will be translated to
> '.'.
>
> By the way, I noted that in my situation the matching of p_bsk
> sometimes does not help
> because of Windows abbrevfiated filenames ("C:\Dokum~1\..."). For
> example when saving
> directly using the full name of the file ("C:\Dokumente und
> Einstellungen\..."). But this is another
> issue, my patch works great for me.
Looks a bit complicated and doesn't work for all magic characters. How
about using vim_strsave_escaped()?
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