Re: "Press ENTER" prompt when edit file with long path

On 2019-12-10, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In an 80-column terminal, when I invoke vim on an existing empty file
> with a name that is 56 'x' characters, it displays the following prompt
> before I can edit the file:
>
> ----
> "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 0 lines, 0 characters
>
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
> ----
>
> How can I stop it from doing that?
>
> NOTE: The file has to exist for it to do this. If it's a new file that
> Vim will create, Vim does not show the prompt.

This looks like a new bug. The presence of the 't' flag in the
'shortmess' option should prevent this, and that flag is there by
default. I just verified that it used to work in 7.4.1689 and
8.0.1453 but is now broken in my 8.1.2352 (on Linux) as well as your
8.1.2400.

Regards,
Gary

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