On 2021-03-11, AvianY wrote:
> I may be mistaken, but there doesn't seem to be any = command in the shell.
> There is also no semantic meaning of an `= command ` in the shell. So this
> doesn't appear to be a problem.
> what am I missing still?

No, there is no = command, at least not in bash.  Are you suggesting
that vim parse the :!  command line for the special case of
a backtick-equal combination, execute that as a Vim expression and
otherwise pass the backtick expression to the shell for
interpretation by the shell?  That could be done but would be
horribly inconsistent and confusing.

Regards,
Gary

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