Re: no special treatment of & and ~ in substitute? possible?

[Mikolaj Machowski]

On pon paź 30 2006, vim@vim.org wrote:
> How can I tell vim to not tread & and ~ in a special way when using
> substitute?
>
> compare
>       echo substitute(substitute('a','a','b','&'),'b','c &','')
> and
>       echo substitute(substitute('a','a','b','&'),'b',substitute('c
> &','\V\(&\|~\)','\\\1','g'),'') using substitute works but seems to be
> more ugly when used in scripts?

:help escape()

m.