Re: Channel commands: special characters, quotes and escaping

Jan Bundesmann wrote:

> > I think this should also work:
> >
> > ["ex", 'call feedkeys("ggOHello, world!\\e")']
> Nope, it does not. Channel log says:
> 82.925983 RECV on 0: '["ex", 'call feedkeys("ggOHello, world!\\e")']'
> 82.926009 ERR on 0: Decoding failed - discarding input

Oh wait, this is JSON and JSON only accepts double quoted strings.

> > Keep in mind this is in Python. And in Python a backslash inside a
> > single quoted string has a special meaning, unlike Vim.
> I still think, it's somehow related to the handler. Or is this, too,
> written in Python?
>
> Out of curiousity, I tried the same but with a simple socket, established via "netcat".
> ["ex", "call feedkeys(\"ggOHello, world!\\e\")"] works
> ["ex", 'call feedkeys("ggOHello, world!\\e")'] does not

Yes, you must use double quoted strings. And then take care of what
Python does with the backslashes.

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