Hi all.
I have some trouble with Mutt's quoting conventions in hooks etc.
At first, what I already have and what works is (a) or (b), which does the
same:
a) send-hook ... "set editor=\"vim '+/^--[ ]*$' -c 'read <some_file>' \" "
b) send-hook ... 'set editor="vim '\''+/^--[ ]*$'\'' -c '\''read
<some_file>'\'' " '
Now, I want to replace `vim` with a script `xvim` which essentially does:
xterm -e vim "$@" &
Simply dropping `xvim` into (a) fails:
send-hook ... "set editor=\"xvim '+/^--[ ]*$' -c 'read <some_file>' \" "
I get a vim error:
"]*$" [New File]
Error detected while processing command line:
E486: Pattern not found: ^--[
E16: Invalid range: -2
Press ENTER or type command to continue
i.e. the single-quotes are eaten up and the cmd line args are split at
whitespaces. I tried to escape the single quotes. Increasing the number of `\'
changes nothing until I use four: \\\\' which produces a mutt error:
Error running "xvim \'+/^--[ ]*$\' -c \'-2; read
/home/elcorto/.mutt/greeting_mefx.txt\' '/tmp/mutt-ramrod-1000-9263-0'"!
So how do I properly escape the single quotes in the vim args
'+/^--[ ]*$'
-c 'read <some_file>'
TIA!
steve
