Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Re: Quote character on command line

On Sat, August 13, 2011 12:20 pm, John Beckett wrote:
> I want to insert the following line after the current line:
> abc "def" ghi
>
> This command works (each quote is escaped):
> :put ='abc \"def\" ghi'
>
> These commands also work (no escaping):
> :let line = 'abc "def" ghi'
> :put =line
>
> But this command fails (the first quote starts a comment):
> :put ='abc "def" ghi'
>
> Why does :let not require escaping, but :put does?
>
> The above is simplified from the original which uses :argdo
> to put the text into multiple files.

No one has answered, so let me guess. I would expect, that historically
:put allowed trailing commands while :let would not allow it simply
to be able to parse quoted strings correctly.

regards,

Christian

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