Re: [vile] Using '\' char in key bindings

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I'm curious as to why this happened? I assume it was the '\' char that
requires the double quotes so is there something special about backslash? More
specifically what escape functionality exists on the right hand side of
key bindings, if it does exist?

Also, I've been reading the vileinit.rc from the distribution and I have a
question about procedures. Is there a way to pass them arguments and have some
type of $1 $2 $N expansions in the procedure? If not is there a way to achieve
this with setting some type of user variable prior to calling the procedure?

Thanks again,
Wayne

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 05:12:50PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> >I can interactively set this key binding.
> >
> >bind-key paste-from-primary ^X-\
> >
> >And the binding works. However if I place that line in my .vilerc and start
> >xvile I get the following error message:
> 
> I see how to make it work.  What I did was
> 
> :show-history
> 
> and saw that it was stored as
> 
> bind-key paste-from-primary "^X-\\"
> 
> and sourcing that seems to work (no error messages, etc).
> 
> >[Not a proper key-sequence]
> >
> >I've tried doubling the '\' in case it is being interpreted as an escape
> >character, same result.
> 
> In a script, vile recognizes quoted strings (double- and single-quotes),
> and those are supposed to match(*) the way the history mechanism 
> saves/restores tokens.  Interactively, it translates to/from that form.
> 
> (*) if it doesn't, that's a bug of course
> 
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> Thomas E. Dickey
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