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

[Thomas Dickey]

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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