patch 8.0.0689: ~ character not escaped when extending search pattern commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a693d0584b9a7ccce98813dda3a6badb209904c7 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Thu Jun 29 22:23:06 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0689: ~ character not escaped when extending search pattern Problem: The ~ character is not escaped when adding to the search pattern with CTRL-L. (Ramel Eshed) Solution: Escape the character. (Christian Brabandt)

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{'silent': 0, 'noremap': 0, 'lhs': 'foo<C-V>', 'mode': ' ', 'nowait': 0, 'expr': 0, 'sid': 0, 'rhs': 'is<F4>foo', 'buffer': 0}
{'silent': 1, 'noremap': 1, 'lhs': 'bar', 'mode': 'v', 'nowait': 0, 'expr': 1, 'sid': 0, 'rhs': 'isbar', 'buffer': 1}
{'silent': 0, 'noremap': 0, 'lhs': 'foo', 'mode': ' ', 'nowait': 1, 'expr': 0, 'sid': 0, 'rhs': 'bar', 'buffer': 1}
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