Gary Johnson wrote:
> I've discovered a bug, or at least a limitation, in the behavior
> of the 'shellcmdflag' option: it does not allow for multiple flags
> separated by spaces.
>
> I encountered this problem when trying to set the option like this,
>
> :set shellcmdflag=-O\ extglob\ -c
>
> so that I could use :grep with bash's extended pattern matching
> operators like this:
>
> :grep pattern !(*Foo*)
>
> That fails because Vim hands the contents of 'shellcmdflag' to bash
> as a single argument instead of three.
>
> The attached patch fixes this problem for Unix but not for other
> operating systems because I have no way to test my changes in
> environments other than Linux and Cygwin.
>
> The patch is to Vim 7.3.189. I haven't updated that particular Vim
> installation because I'm also trying to track down a race condition
> in the handling of the termresponse and diff events and I don't want
> to disturb the timing of those events.
>
> Setting 'shellcmdflag' to "-ic" is not a satisfactory solution
> because having bash source my ~/.bashrc when it's not in an
> interactive environment causes other problems.
Thanks. I'll await some people trying this out.
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