Re: Alias Error

[Paul Jarc]

"xin wu" <wuxin@myself.com> wrote:
>       $ alias vv="vim \"+call IMAP('NNO','\Note{<++>}<++>','tex')\" 
> /tmp/Vim.tex"

Here, you used double quotes around the alias value.

>       alias vv='vim "+call 
> IMAP('\''NNO'\'','\''\Note{<++>}<++>'\'','\''tex'\'')" /tmp/Vim.tex'

But bash printed it using single quotes.  So to represent a literal
single quote in the middle of that string, bash has to use a single
quote to end the quoted string, then use a backslash-escaped single
quote, and then begin a new single-quoted string.

>       In fact, the output I expected was:
>
>       $ alias
>       alias vv='vim "+call IMAP('NNO','\Note{<++>}<++>','tex')" /tmp/Vim.tex'

That wouldn't mean what you think.  The ' before NNO would end the
quoted string that starts after vv=.  There would be no literal single
quote included in the alias value.


paul