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is that substitute call just to deal with characters that break the shell command? you may consider calling `shellescape` instead.
Sep 23 · 3 months ago
Hmm. What the heck does it substitute?
the substitute function is replacing ' with '\''. shellescape will do basically the same thing, but will adjust how it escapes characters based on the shell you're using. so it will work with multiple different shells
echo system("tmux send-keys -t " . g:tmux_target . " " . shellescape(a:text))
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