I don't know for sure (And hopefully someone who does will chime in) but my hypothesis is that it relates to quotes using the same character for beginning and end.
This is supported by the same behavior for backticks, ie > rawr test `ps aux` (type di` ) rawr test `` -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
