setvar esc "![chr(27)]"
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Denis St-Amand
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"Tracy Pierce" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> I'd like to do "SETVAR <varname> <escapechar>" without explicitly using
the
> escape character.
>
> I can do
> :SETVAR ESC 'kapow'
> where 'kapow' = our friend the escape character aka %033 aka 0x1b aka
> ascii(27), but I need to do something like
> :SETVAR ESC %033
> and be able to retrieve it as a character.
>
> The whole idea is to avoid explicit usage of the character in my command
> file.
>
>
> Tracy Pierce
>
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