Escape single quotes from text selection

bcicen · Jun 22, 2017 · 21c16d5 · 21c16d5
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commit 21c16d5
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diff --git a/contrib/vim-slackcat/plugin/vim-slackcat.vim b/contrib/vim-slackcat/plugin/vim-slackcat.vim
@@ -37,14 +37,18 @@ function! SendToSlack()
     let s_lang = input("lang? ", &filetype)
     call inputrestore()
     echo "\rSending to Slack ..."
-    let s_selection = s:getVisualSelection()
+    let s_selection = s:escapeTildes(s:getVisualSelection())
     if empty(s_lang)
         let s_lang = 'txt'
     endif
     let return = system("echo '". s_selection ."' |slackcat -c " . s_channel . " --filetype " . s_lang)
     echo "\rSent !"
 endfunction
 
+function! s:escapeTildes(text)
+    return substitute(a:text, "'", "'\"'\"'", 'g')
+endfunction
+
 function! s:getVisualSelection()
     " Why is this not a built-in Vim script function?!
     let [lnum1, col1] = getpos("'<")[1:2]