Re: when to use ' or "

On Monday, July 30, 2012 4:31:16 AM UTC-5, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> On 30/07/12 1:10 PM, Bee wrote:
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> > On Jul 29, 7:24 pm, Ben Fritz<fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Friday, July 27, 2012 7:02:52 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote:
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> >>> I tend to use ' around strings passed as arguments to functions or
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> >>> commands, and use " for comments.
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> >>> Comments... Please
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> >> I use " for strings when I need to use special characters, e.g.
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> >>
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> >> :execute "nnoremap \<CR>" MyFuncResult()
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> >> I also use " for strings which contain ' characters, like:
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> >> :echo "I don't like to double up the ' characters"
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> >> I use ' everywhere else, especially when I want to include a literal backslash or a " character in a string.
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> > Would your first example be simpler,
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> > since ' suppresses special chars:
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> > :execute 'nnoremap<CR>' MyFuncResult()
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> Perhaps it wasn't the best example. This example from :help :normal is
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> perhaps more instructive (it moves the cursor to the next window).
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> :exe "normal \<c-w>\<c-w>"
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Yeah...oops. I meant to use something where the \<...> notation was needed. I wrote in a hurry...nnoremap was a bad example.

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