On Feb 15, 10:48 am, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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!). > > The 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 behavior 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. >
The directory listing is done entirely by the netrw plugin. Netrw is just like any other plugin. Vim has no way to know netrw is going to handle the directory "edit". Without netrw, editing a directory correctly gives an error. With netrw, Vim acts the same way. There is not really any way around this. -- 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
