Shellxquote settings breaking things cryptically

[Taverius]

I had an old shellxquote="" from way back when it was required to have such odd things for anything at all to work on windows, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

It never caused issues and fixed some, so in my .vimrc it stayed, until today.

Today I decided to drop NeoBundle for Plug, and I was getting cryptic error messages when I attempted to run PlugUpdate to see if everything was working:

Turns out my shellxquote setting was causing it.

A quick look says that Windows defaults are sane now, so that's good at least.

Can you add a warning, or a faq item, or a workaround for that?

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[junegunn]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into it when I get a chance.

[janlazo]

Neovim unsets shellxquote as well so it's not enough info.
Best to revert any Windows-specific shell options to their default values.