Ben Fritz wrote: > On Feb 14, 4:31 am, RoDo <[email protected]> wrote: > > echo system('echo a & echo b') fail > > should escape & > > echo system('echo a ^& echo b') pass > > > > It looks like most of the use cases pass when using the () patch for > shellxquote, I like that option. > > Since there are still some failures when using an unescaped & maybe we > should put a note in the help about how to escape it as well, probably > in :help :! and :help system() both.
Using & in a command is unusual. Having the command work with spaces in the command name and argument name is much more important. But we would like to make every command work... -- Creating the world with Emacs: M-x let-there-be-light Creating the world with Vim: :make world /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
