On 05/05/2009 04:20 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Michael Hordijk wrote: > >> On 05/05/2009 01:04 PM, Matt Wozniski wrote: >>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Michael Hordijk wrote: >> That being said, normally when an application has a problem with certain >> characters in a string, said characters are escaped before they're used. >> Some parts of Vim work fine with >> >> HOME='/u/hordijk\,spin' >> >> but then other parts break. >> >> I'm thinking that Vim, if it finds a comma in $HOME, should escape it >> before adding it to an internal structure that it expects to be comma >> delimited. If Vim has a concept of escaping, then it should be easy. >> If not, it would probably be more involved. > > The special characters in $HOME should indeed be escaped. I can only > think of a comma being special here.
Is this something that I can expect a future version of VIM to do? That is, escape the ',' in $HOME before stashing it internally. - michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
