On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Dominique Pellé <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can you try interactively if happens when >> typing the Ex command :e ~a<C-a> >> where <C-a> is a single key for CTRL-A >> >> On which OS do you see the issue? >> Is it reproducible with other user names? > > I made an experiment on my machine: > :e ~p<c-a> > gives: :e ~pel proxy pulse (good!) > > Then I created a new user "pel2" and did: > : e ~p<c-a> gives :e ~pel pel2 proxy pulse (good) > : e ~pe<c-a> gives :e ~pel pel2 (good) > : e ~pel<c-a> gives :e /home/pel/ (does not look right!) > > I expected to get :e ~pel pel2 in the last case. > > In your case, I suspect that you have a user name called "a" > which is triggering the bug. > > It looks like a bug in vim found by the test.
Yup I do have a user called "a" on the machine. This is on linux (ubuntu 16.04.4). The bug don't appear if I comment out the entry for the user "a" in /etc/passwd. Also I see this weird behavior: $ sudo vi /etc/passwd :e ~a<c-a> gives /home/a/ (buggy as expected) now without closing the file comment out the entry for the "a" user and save the file and reattempt the completion :e ~a<c-a> nothing suggested, ":e ~a" remains. I expect it list the usernames that starts with "a". Now undo the changes to the file and quit vim and open it again in vim but this time immediately comment out the entry for "a": $ sudo vi /etc/passwd comment out the entry for "a" :e ~a<c-a> gives the expected result :e ~avahi avahi-autoipd ayie nazri -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
