Michael Hordijk wrote:
> 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.
I plan to fix it. But it will take some time, the todo list is very
long.
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