Question

Sometimes I want to use a minimal vim configuration, so with pathogen I have the following alias:

alias v='vim -u "$HOME/.vim/simple.vim" --noplugins'

and in the simple.vim file I have the following lines:

let g:p0 = split(&runtimepath, ',')[0]
exec "source" . g:p0 . "/plugin/NERD_commenter.vim"

this fails when g:p0 contains spaces. I tried

exec "source" . "'" . g:p0 . "/plugin/NERD_commenter.vim" . "'"

and also

exec "source" . '"' . g:p0 . "/plugin/NERD_commenter.vim" . '"'

but they both fail. Any ideas on how to solve this?

Answer 1

You should use the fnameescape() function

exec 'source ' . fnameescape(g:p0 . '/plugin/NERD_commenter.vim')

Of course, even better would be using the runtime command

runtime plugin/NERD_commenter.vim