Re: when to use ' or "

On Jul 29, 7:24 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 27, 2012 7:02:52 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote:
> > I tend to use ' around strings passed as arguments to functions or
>
> > commands, and use " for comments.
>
> > Comments... Please
>
> I use " for strings when I need to use special characters, e.g.
>
> :execute "nnoremap \<CR>" MyFuncResult()
>
> I also use " for strings which contain ' characters, like:
>
> :echo "I don't like to double up the ' characters"
>
> I use ' everywhere else, especially when I want to include a literal backslash or a " character in a string.

Would your first example be simpler,
since ' suppresses special chars:

:execute 'nnoremap <CR>' MyFuncResult()

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