escaping.vroom

Sometimes, vroom syntax gets in the way of your tests. When you have weird
tests, there's two escaping rules that you need to remember.



1. The ampersand (&) escapes a control block.

  % Literal line ending in (&1)
  Literal line ending in (&1)

The contents of the buffer will be "Literal line ending in (1)"



2. Lines starting with `  & ` are also output lines.

  % > This looks like an input line.
  & > This looks like an input line.

As a special case, you can use the line `  &` to match an empty buffer line.
(two blank spaces will also work, but some editors complain about trailing
whitespace.)

  @clear
  % Hello<CR><CR>World
  Hello
  &
  World



Finally, remember that you can escape special characters in glob mode with
square brackets.

  % What? An asterisk*
  & ????[?] An *[*] (glob)