Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
> The help on glob() or globpath() don't indicate what type of
> metacharacters are accepted, but there is a separate section called
> |file-pattern| that describes the metacharacters used for filename
> matching for autocommands. I don't know if these are applicable for
> glob() and globpath() as well, but a lot of these don't seem to work as
> described. Is there a different section that I am missing to see, or is
> it completely left out? Are the metacharacters predictable, or dependent
> on the platform and environment? If so, is there a base set that could
> work on all?
>
> The reason I am asking is that I would like to translate a
> filename-pattern to a Vim regex-pattern such that I can highlight the
> part of the filename that matched the filename-pattern, after getting
> the results from glob() or globpath(), so I need to know all the
> supported chars.
glob() should work as described at ":help wildcard". There are
small differences depending on the system.
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