Saturday, March 24, 2012

Re: ...missing expansion of ~/...

Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> [12-03-24 14:00]:
> Hi meino.cramer!
>
> On Sa, 24 Mär 2012, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > when doing something like (mccramer is me)
> >
> > :r ~mccramer/<TAB>>
> >
> > nothing happens while
> >
> > : r~/<TAB>
> >
> > works. I doing this on Linux.
>
> I think, traditional shells did not expand ~username and only expanded ~
> for your current username.
>

...my shell is not that traditional, it does expand ~mccramer...no
problems... ;)


> > Why does it behave like this?
>
> Because it is not implemented.

ok, than it is not located outside vim...that is what I wanted
to know...


> The good thing is, it's in the todo list. The bad thing, it probably
> will take some time until this will get fixed, if no patch is written.

ok

> regards,
> Christian
> --

regards,
mcc


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