On Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:38:04 AM UTC-5, Silas Silva wrote:
> insert a "\\|" it stops to interpret it:
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> set formatlistpat=\\(\\a\\|\\d\\)\\.
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> This doesn't work.
> 

YOu escaped just the '\' character. You also need to escape the '|' character 
to prevent it being used as a command separator:

    set formatlistpat=\\(\\a\\\|\\d\\)\\.

Better would be to use :let so you can avoid escaping altogether:

    let &formatlistpat='\(\a\|\d\)\.'

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