Re: Netrw and filtering

John Little wrote:
>
> On Oct 7, 4:20 pm, Ben Fritz<fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw :help netrw-star and read that text to understand that netrw can
>> filter for files matching a pattern in a given directory.
>>
>> But I cannot get it to work.
>>
>> I tried<lots>
>>
> FWIW, with vim 7.3.322, netrw v142, on Kubuntu, I get broadly similar
> weirdness. For example,
>
> :Explore *//~/vim/*.vim
>
> started editing ~/LargeFile.vba
>
> ?!
>
*//pattern files in the current directory which contain the pattern
(vimgrep is used)

So your pattern is "~/vim/*.vim"; ie. files which contain a string which
matches "~/vim/*.vim". That pattern looks a bit odd to me to be used
for string searching via vimgrep; it looks more like a path.

Unfortunately, what you're asking for isn't supported:

:Explore */filespec : does current directory matching to determine
which, if any, of the files in the _current_ directory match your filespec
:Explore **/filespec : searches the current directory and its
subdirectories for files which match your filespec
:Explore *//pattern : searches the current directory for files which
contain a match to the pattern
:Explore **//pattern : searches the current directory and its
subdirectories for files which contain a match to the pattern

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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