On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 4:51:38 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > I have a set of files, whose names contain various punctuation characters > like # and $. E.g. FOO#BAR and BIZ$BAZ. > > When editing a file via ":e" the command line completion works fine for file > names with #. Typing ":e FOO#<TAB>" shows me files matching that pattern. The > # is escaped by vim automagically and appears as ":e FOO\#xxx". > > The same does not work for files containing "$". No matches are produced when > entering ":e BIZ$<TAB>". According to 'cmdline.txt' help, the "$" is > interrupted as end of string. > > Is there a way to escape the "$" and treat it as a literal? Is there another > way to edit/open files from the command line that will get around this issue > and yet provide auto-completion of names? I'm not interested in using any > plugins.. > > TIA, > Jonathan
I should point out that I've already tried escaping "$" as "\$" and "$$" to no avail. -- -- 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/d/optout.
