2016-04-12 23:54 GMT+03:00 <[email protected]>: > 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 are on Windows? If yes, please read https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/541 (specifically point 3), `$` cannot be escaped there. You can work around this only by using <code>`="BIZ$BAZ"`</code>. > > -- > -- > 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. -- -- 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.
