Re: ** matches one or more directories, not zero or more

Am 2014-11-10 20:09, schrieb ds26gte:
> This doesn't match shell behavior of ** (for shells that have it, like
> bash).

Since the behaviour of ** is not standardized and vim is no shell, that
is no
argument for or against anything.

> Even if ~/**/*.ex is deemed to keep the '/', the empty instantiation
> of the ** pattern would give ~//*.ex, which is equivalent to ~/*.ex,
> as consecutive /'s in a path collapse into a single /, even in Vim.

Obviously, it doesn't. So simply use **.ex as a pattern which seems to
do what you
want and is even simpler. I checked with an example of

au BufReadFile ~/**.ex :echom "autocomd **.ex matched!"

and it triggered for all your files mentioned.

Make sure to also read the documentation at

:h starstar-wildcard
:h autocomd-patterns


Best,
Christian

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