I wrote:
> Ben Fritz wrote:
>
> > I think we should do the auto-escaping, with shellxquote=(, and
> > additionally add a help note by :! and system() that "According to the
> > Microsoft documentation for cmd.exe, you either need to escape (with a
> > ^ character) any of these characters appearing literally in your
> > command, or surround them in quotes ("): > ( ) @ ^ |." Should we
> > mention that Vim will escape them again, and also escape "?
>
> Yes, I think the use should escape & and | when they appear in a
> command. I haven't verified, but I believe they are illegal in a file
> name.
>
> Please try the patch below. I currently do not have a Windows machine
> to try this out.
I would like to send out this patch, but I first need to know if it
doesn't break the build. Please tell me if you successfully compiled
this.
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