Re: Possible bug with wildcard expansion patterns on command line: question mark (match any single character) metacharacter doesn't seem to work

Brett Stahlman wrote:

> According to the help on cmdline-completion...
>
> The 'wildchar' option defaults to <Tab> (CTRL-E when in Vi compatible
> mode; in a previous version <Esc> was used). In the pattern standard
> wildcards '*' and '?' are accepted. '*' matches any string, '?' matches
> exactly one character.
>
> The ? doesn't work for me. If I do...
>
> set gui*<Tab>
>
> ...I get option completion as expected. If, on the other hand, I do...
>
> set gui?ptions<Tab>
>
> ...Vim doesn't attempt any completion, but simply inserts a literal tab
> (^I) at the cursor position on the command line. Shouldn't I get a
> completion in the second case also?

The ? only works in file names. I'll change the help text.

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