On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:22:15 AM UTC-6, Andrew Stewart wrote: > Hello! > > I have a plugin which uses `system(command, input)` to run some external > commands. There seem to be a few escaping problems (mostly on Windows). > > So I did some research and wrote it all up here: > https://github.com/airblade/vim-system-escape > > In a nutshell I'd like to write a VimL `shellescape(str)` function which gets > the escaping right for all Vim versions greater than, say, 7.0. I.e. > implement the current built-in escaping logic in VimL. > > And maybe have a similar function which escapes the whole command passed to > `system(command)`...though I'm not sure yet whether that's necessary. > > Anyway, I'd be most grateful for suggestions and/or feedback on my notes at > the link above. > > Thanks in advance, > > Andy Stewart
A novel approach I've seen in a plugin (I don't remember which one), is to write all the desired shell commands to a temporary file, write it as a .bat file, and then execute THAT file in the shell instead of the original commands. Then very little escaping is needed. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
