* Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> [110604 18:04]:
> 
> Within single quotes, every character is taken literally, even a
> backslash, except that two single quotes mean one.
 Aha! 
> You should have used double quotes with backslash-escaping, like
> this (referring to your original post):
> 
>       exec 'e' a:dir . "/\t"
> or
>       execute 'e ' . a.dir . "/\<Tab>"
 :) Now we are getting somewhere. With your example above,
 I get the directory itself in a vim buffer window. Which
 is useful, but preferable, I want to see the wildmenu for
 the directory.

 As if I were to manually in ex type:
 e /home/http/run/baker/xmlimport/models<Tab>

 thanks
-- 
Tim 
tim at johnsons-web dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com

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