On 2014-03-11, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
>
> On Mar 11, 2014 9:51 PM, "Charles Campbell" wrote:
> >
> > Ingo Karkat wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11-Mar-2014 15:14 +0100, Ben Fritz wrote:
> >>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> Isn't this situation what shellescape() is designed for?
> >>>
> >>> That's not saying shellescape() will work, but I think it's supposed
> >>> to work, unlike using a bare % which should always work for internal
> >>> Vim commands but will only work by accident in external commands.
> >>
> >> No, shellescape() would be used in a mapping / command, like this:
> >> shellescape(expand('%'), 1). With the 1 flag (for use with :!), a
> >> literal % is properly escaped to \% so that Vim's special handling does
> >> not apply.
> >>
> >> % is handy for interactive use, like :!perl %
> >>
> > shellescape() is for use in a shell command argument being
> > passed to the shell. The documentation even shows an example of
> > using a filter. fnameescape() is for internal-vim use involving
> > filenames (ie. avoid having % have magic with exe when you don't
> > want it to).
> > % is replaced with the current file name, just as it is typed.
> > (see :he _%).
> >
> > So, if the current filename contains spaces, that's what you can
> > expect to see with the expansion.
> > The right way to do what the OP wants:
> >
> > :exe "w !diff ".shellescape(expand("%"))
>
> After my patch was included you can use (mentioned in second or
> third message in this thread)
>
> :w !diff %:S
Appending :S is easy enough to be a good solution. However, it
doesn't handle parentheses any better than "%", at least not with
Vim 7.4.193 on Linux.
$ vim -N -u NONE 'foo bar()'
:w
:!file %:S
foo bar\(\): ERROR: cannot open `foo bar\(\)' (No such file or directory)
Regards,
Gary
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