Bill McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun 23-Sep-07 8:34pm -0600, Dasn wrote:
>
> > I've posted on vim_use some days before:
> >
> >>$ vim -c "q" 'foo ~ foo'
> >>$ vim -c "normal '0"
> >>E20: Mark not set
> >
> > Filename contains '~' character which is around with path separators
> > (i.e. ' ' and ',') has such problem.
> >
> > And the patch:
> >
> > Index: mark.c
>
> With Windows (using XP) the problem is far nastier. Simply
> opening a file with that name:
>
> gvim "foo ~ foo"
>
> causes problems. Specifically, I receive the following
> message:
>
> E303: Unable to open swap file for "foo C:\Documents and Settings\Bill
> foo", recovery impossible
>
> Notice how the '~' is expanded.
>
> In my environment:
>
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Bill
With MS-Windows the wildcard expansion is done by Vim, not by the shell.
The shell does remove the double quotes. This results in ~ to be
expanded. Try putting a backslash before it.
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