Martin Toft wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:29:04PM -0700, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It looks like filename completion in the command-line mode is broken
> > in Vim 7.1.82. I am running Vim 7.1.82 on Linux and see the following
> > issue.
> >
> > $ cd vim7/src
> > $ vim
> > :edit *unix*<Tab>
> >
> > When I press <Tab> to complete the name of files containing the string
> > "unix" in them, it completes all the files in the current directory.
> > It appears the specified pattern is ignored. Is anyone else seeing
> > this problem?
>
> It is introduced by patch 7.1.081 [1], which is supposed to fix this
> bug:
>
> - Command line completion for a shell command: "cat </tmp/file<Tab>"
> doesn't work.
>
> In co-operation with Bram, I decided to make vim_isfilec() the judge of
> which characters to treat as white space when doing shell completion.
> We didn't think of your example ('*unix*<Tab>'), sorry.
>
> I'll wait and see what Bram (or others) proposes as a solution.
My proposal is that you fix it :-) We have mch_has_wildcard(), but it
applies to a whole string, so you need to do some more work.
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