Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> 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.
>> Good idea, but: gvim "foo \~ foo"
>> results in:
>>
>> E303: Unable to open swap file for "foo \~ foo", recovery impossible
>>
>> and modifying the file and trying to write results in:
>>
>> "foo \~ foo" E212: Can't open file for writing
>
> I see the problem. Since "~" is a filename character the backslash
> before it isn't removed, it's assumed to be a path separator.
>
> I think we should fix this by avoiding the ~ to be expanded.
>
Maybe expand it only if the file name starts with tilde + path separator?
(IIRC, ~user is not expanded on Windows).
Best regards,
Tony.
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