Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Charles Campbell wrote:
William S Fulton wrote:
run: gvim .
on Windows at bottom it will say, eg: "C:\" Illegal file name
on Solaris and Linux at the bottom it will say, eg: . is a directory
The Unix message is less confusing. Can this for Windows versions as
it still occurs in vim7.0f? Same message appears when doing
:new .
I haven't found any way to avoid these messages with netrw, so it sounds
like an issue for Bram M.
This is a valid message. At the moment it's given Vim doesn't know yet
(for sure) that some autocommand will kick in to handle it.
You also get the message on Unix if you do ":e dir/".
There is also some inconsistency going on here.
On windows:
gvim C:\WINDOWS
gives: "C:\WINDOWS\" illegal file name
On Linux:
gvim /usr
gives: /usr is a directory
but
gvim /usr/
gives "/usr/" illegal filename
And unfortunately bash command completion results in /usr/ rather than
/usr.
From a user's point of view it just doesn't seem right if one is using
the explorer with a directory list showing and then selecting a
directory, the illegal filename message appears. One part of the program
knows the directory is a directory and another part thinks it is a bad
file :(
William
