ZyX wrote:
> This is modifier for those who are bothered using `execute '!cmd'
> shellescape(@%, 1)`, but cannot use `!cmd %` because they do not know
> what `%` will expand to: it replaces the first variant with `!cmd
> %:S`.
>
> I remember myself requesting this kind of functionality a while ago.
>
> Note: how about making new do_newline argument be the same as do_special?
> Currently if I do
>
> echo system('echo '.shellescape("abc def\necho ghi"))
>
> I get correct results only if my shell is tcsh, but if my shell is zsh I get
>
> abc def\
> echo ghi
>
> which is not correct (`\`) must not be there. This should fix
> “newlines in {expr} may cause the command to fail” from system()
> documentation as as far as I see it is shellescape() problem and not
> system().
[...]
> + :S Escape special characters (see |shellescape()|). Must be the
> + last one.
Is this sufficient to explain what this does exactly?
Perhaps a few more references are needed in the help, it's not easy to
guess that escaping can be done this way.
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