I'm a fairly recent convert to vim, after using emacs for many, many years (I used the very first version of emacs, built on top of Teco, on Tenex on a DEC PDP-10; I guess just dated myself!).
Small issue: using gvim (I think the same issue happens with vim, but the error message comes and goes so quickly I can't be sure), if I invoke :ed <partial unambiguous dirname> and then hit tab to complete the dirname, netrw produces the directory listing, but I get the error "Illegal file name" at the bottom of the window. I note that when tab completes a directory name, it adds a trailing /. If, in a fresh gvim, I instead type in the entire directory name *without the trailing slash*, the error message does not appear. In addition, if I do this and type the trailing /, I *do* get the error message. To further confuse matters, after netrw produces the directory listing of, say, ~/foo, if I then type ":ed foo/" or ":ed fo<tab>", no error occurs, despite the trailing /. While this issue causes no loss of functionality, the error message is incorrect, in my opinion, especially given that it does not always occur, as described above. All of the above refers to vim 7.3, including patches 1-99, compiled from source and installed on a Slackware 13.1 i486 system. /Don Allen -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
