On May 21, 9:38 pm, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/21/2011 05:47 AM, John wrote: > > > On Windows XP, when I try to edit a filename in Windows > > Explorer and insert a colon into the name, Windows pops up a > > box saying that it is an illegal character in a filename. > > However according to the manual, the default setting of > > isfname for Windows contains a colon - ie it is > > > default for MS-DOS, Win32 and OS/2: > > "@,48-57,/,\,.,-,_,+,,,#,$,%,{,},[,],:,@-@,!,~,=" > > > Is this correct? > > The reason is to allow things like "gf" to pick up drive letters: > > x:\path\to\file.txt > > -tim
Ah, thanks, makes sense. I'm trying to use isfname to validate filenames for my renamer.vim plugin - guess I'll just have to change it temporarily while I check the filename without the path. Cheers, John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
