Michael Hordijk wrote:
> On 05/05/2009 01:04 PM, Matt Wozniski wrote:
> > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Michael Hordijk wrote:
> >> Vim doesn't seem to handle a comma in $HOME at all. In this case, $HOME
> >> = /u/hordijk,spin strace shows that Vim seems to be doing some odd
> >> parsing around the comma:
> >>
> >> stat64("/u/hordijk/syntax/synload.vim", 0xbfa03e9c) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> >> file or directory)
> >> stat64("spin/.vim/syntax/synload.vim", 0xbfa03e9c) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> >> file or directory)
> >>
> >> Anybody else experience a similar issue, or I am the only one with a
> >> comma in their homedir? :)
> >
> > Vim uses a comma separated list of directories to search for runtime
> > files. Your home directory is added to that list, but appears as two
> > elements instead of one, because of the comma in it. I doubt there's
> > any way to get around this. You *might* be able to hack things to
> > make it work, but it would be ugly. In general, I would think that
> > comma is one of those strange characters that you shouldn't embed in
> > $HOME, like : and ;
>
> Of course, that would be very unfortunate, as we do some things with
> automount and such that comma's are in a lot of directory names. In the
> three years of working with this, Vim is the first application that
> seems to have a problem with it.
>
> That being said, normally when an application has a problem with certain
> characters in a string, said characters are escaped before they're used.
> Some parts of Vim work fine with
>
> HOME='/u/hordijk\,spin'
>
> but then other parts break.
>
> I'm thinking that Vim, if it finds a comma in $HOME, should escape it
> before adding it to an internal structure that it expects to be comma
> delimited. If Vim has a concept of escaping, then it should be easy.
> If not, it would probably be more involved.
The special characters in $HOME should indeed be escaped. I can only
think of a comma being special here.
You can work around it by explicitly setting the options that use $HOME
in their default value.
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