On Thu, April 18, 2013 15:32, Ingo Karkat wrote:
> On 18-Apr-2013 15:15 +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
>> On Thu, April 18, 2013 15:06, Ingo Karkat wrote:
>>> Please note that for the root directory, C:\ is different than C:
>>> (which
>>> means the current working directory of the C drive), so leaving off the
>>> trailing path separator may cause problems in this case. (I haven't
>>> checked your patch, but :echo globpath('C:', '*') returns different
>>> results than :echo globpath('C:\', '*') after :cd C:\windows.
>>>
>>
>> That is interesting, because the echo globpath('C:', '*') result is
>> rather useless here:
>>
>> ,----
>> | C:111.txt
>> | C:stats-sql.txt
>> | C:test.txt
>> `----
>>
>> Note the missing slash. And C: here stands for c:\temp, so the output
>> is rather useless in this case.
>>
>> This looks like another bug here.
>
> No, this is just the unusual but valid notation. Without the backslash
> after the drive letter, this means "this path from the current working
> directory of the preceding drive letter". Therefore, this works:
>
> :cd C:\Windows
> :edit C:win.ini
> " Existing file opens.
> :echo expand('%:p')
> C:\Windows\win.ini
>
I'd still prefer to have the glob return an absolute path an not such
a silly name. You can't even copy and paste that string.
Would it hurt to have globpath() in that case return an
absolute path?
regards,
Christian
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