hgcommand.vim and a directory with '#' character

[Christian Ebert]

* Aleksey V. Kunitskiy on Monday, May 05, 2008 at 16:48:06 +0300
> I've found that hgcommand.vim does not handle properly directories with '#' 
> character. For example:
> 
> %>mkdir \#testdir
> %>cd \#testdir
> %>touch testfile
> %>vim testfile
> 
> and I got the error:
> "testfile" 0L, 0C
> Error detected while processing function 
> <SNR>14_HGSetupBuffer..<SNR>14_HGGetStatusVars:
> line   55:
> E194: No alternate file name to substitute for '#': cd /home/marten/#test
> 
> I think that problem is in escape function usage in hgcommand.vim.
> Can someone confirm this?

I can.

While this doesn't help with the issue directly, in case you're
using Vim7, I'd recommend using

vcscommand <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=90>

in connection with

vcsnursery <http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1898>

vcscommand also doesn't break with your example. From a hurried
test it seemed to me that it still might have probs with # in
filenames.

atm I have no time to look into this, but I believe it's not
enough to add # to each escape string.

When I find time I'll revert to hgcommand and see what I can do,
unless someone else comes up with a fix.

c
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