[ANN] Understanding Vim's excalamation mark command quoting/escaping rules

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

I prepared a document where I investigated which characters need to be
escaped in vim's ":!" commands of filtering the text through a shell
command. It can be found here:

https://github.com/shlomif/vim-begin/tree/master/understanding-exclamation-mark-shell-exec--escaping-rules

(short URL: http://is.gd/wA8Yie )



Executive summary:

- “%”, “#”, and “!” should be escaped with a backslash (“\”).

- All other punctuation/special characters (including a backslash)
need not and should not be escaped.

Enjoy!

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

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