> I just ran into a weird situation and was wondering if there is a way to get
> around it other than renaming the directory that contains the '#' character.
>
> A little background. I am using Windows XP, the latest version of Vim taken
> from the Mercurial repository and compiled using Visual Studio 2010. My version
> of Vim lives under the C:\vim directory.
>
> Steps to create the weirdness:
>
> 1) Open a Windows Command Prompt.
>
> 2) Start a new version of Vim Server, since I like only having one instance of
> Vim running at a time, by entering:
>
> 'c:\vim\gvim -u NONE --servername VIM'
>
> 3) Move to the directory that contains the '#' character:
>
> 'cd c:\develop\c#\foo'
>
> 3) Create a new files by entering:
>
> 'c:\vim\gvim -u NONE --servername VIM --remote-silent bar.cs
>
> 4) In the instance of Vim that is already running I get the following error and
> the file is not opened:
>
> 'E194: No alternate file name to substitute for '#''
>
> Any idea what is happening here?
>
> Sure, I could rename the directory and remove the '#' character, but I was
> wondering if there is something else...
Passing the directory of the file to the Vim server probably lacks
escaping the # with a backslash. That's a bug.
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