On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 at 11:44am, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Thanks Bram. This covers "**" as well, but doesn't mention most of the
other wildcards that are applicable for |file-pattern|, which makes
sense. I was however surprised to see "{}" working to group patterns and
"," working to separate patterns with in them. Is this something extra
for windows and undocumented? It is also strange that the [abc] wildcard
always matches as if 'ignorecase' is turned on. Is there a way to force
a 'noignorecase' on windows?
--
Thanks,
Hari
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