Re: Some VAM bundles with '%' in their names causing problems

Hi Pablo!

On Mo, 18 Jun 2012, Pablo Giménez wrote:

> Well I think the % symbol confuse some string evaluations.
> I use a function like this:
> function! SetLocalPath ()
> " Current basename for the buffer
> let baseName = expand("%:p:h")
> if isdirectory(baseName)
> exe 'lcd ' . baseName
> endif
>
> endfunction
>
> And I have it in an autocommand so it is executed everytime a new
> buffer is opened.
> Problem is that when a foler name contains the % symbols it fails.
> The string expansion for the exe command is wrong.
> However it works for the isdirectory statement.

You shouldn't paste the directory directly to lcd, bug need to use
fnameescape().

See :h cmdline-special

regards,
Christian
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