Try searching with :grep for a string containing a quote (as in http://superuser.com/questions/645157/vim-how-do-you-use-external-grep-to-search-for-quotation-marks)
Either the grep command given in that post, or the following: :!findstr \"foo test.txt For some reason, it appears that "findstr" consumes the " so unlike any other command in Windows '\' is the escape character. This search doesn't work with shellxquote set to either ( or "(. In both cases the shell returns 1 for no results. It works with shellxquote set to ", or set to empty. The corresponding :grep \" test.txt only seems to work with shellxquote set to ". Anyway, some experimentation in the cmd.exe shell shows that "( ought to work, but for some reason the " isn't being escaped according to shellxescape: C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp>cmd /c "(findstr \^"jkl test.txt)" "jkl :!findstr \"jkl test.txt C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "(findstr \"jkl test.txt)" shell returned 1 Regardless, I can't figure out how we could get the default value of ( to work: C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp>cmd /c (findstr \^"jkl test.txt) C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp>cmd /c (findstr \"jkl test.txt) C:\Users\Ben\AppData\Local\Temp>cmd /c (findstr \^^"jkl test.txt) "jkl Is there a reason why " isn't escaped when shellxquote is "(? If it were escaped with ^, then the search should work. Also I don't recall, why isn't "( the default? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
