patch 8.0.0876: backslashes and wildcards in backticks don't work commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/39d21e3c30f3391f3b27f5ddb7e1ad411bdb8f2e Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Aug 5 23:09:31 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0876: backslashes and wildcards in backticks don't work Problem: MS-Windows: Backslashes and wildcards in backticks don't work. Solution: Do not handle backslashes inside backticks in the wrong place. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, closes #1942)

--- a/src/os_mswin.c
+++ b/src/os_mswin.c
@@ -450,6 +450,15 @@ slash_adjust(char_u *p)
 {
     if (path_with_url(p))
 	return;
+
+    if (*p == '`')
+    {
+	/* don't replace backslash in backtick quoted strings */
+	int len = STRLEN(p);
+	if (len > 2 && *(p + len - 1) == '`')
+	    return;
+    }
+
     while (*p)
     {
 	if (*p == psepcN)