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patch 8.2.3385: escaping for fish shell does not work properly Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/6e82351130ddb8d13cf3748b47f07cae77886fc7 Author: Jason Cox <dev@jasoncarloscox.com> Date: Sun Aug 29 12:36:49 2021 +0200 patch 8.2.3385: escaping for fish shell does not work properly Problem: Escaping for fish shell does not work properly. Solution: Insert a backslash before a backslash. (Jason Cox, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/8810)
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
date Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:45:05 +0200
parents 78ef12e0ce8c
children d4faa2c5211b
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--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -10111,6 +10111,10 @@ shellescape({string} [, {special}])			*s
 		escaped.  When 'shell' containing "csh" in the tail it's
 		escaped a second time.
 
+		The "\" character will be escaped when 'shell' contains "fish"
+		in the tail. That is because for fish "\" is used as an escape
+		character inside single quotes.
+
 		Example of use with a |:!| command: >
 		    :exe '!dir ' . shellescape(expand('<cfile>'), 1)
 <		This results in a directory listing for the file under the