Escaping Shell Command Arguments in Vim
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I'm trying to fully understand the following command in Vim: :exe "grep -R " . shellescape(expand("<cWORD>")) . " ."<cr> I got the use of expand function (force the expansion of into the actual string before it gets passed to shellescape) and shellescape command itself ( from Vim help page: Escape {string} for use as a shell command argument). What I do not understand, from help itself either, is that use of dots, one before and one after shellescape command. Again, both of the dots are preceeded and followed by an empty space. And if I use : :exe "grep -R "shellescape(expand("<cWORD>"))" ."<cr> which is the same command without those dots, I (apparently) get the same result. Can anybody give a detaile...
