Monday, December 31, 2012

Re: Opening/creating a filename with a space using the :e command?

On 12/31/12 09:48, delph367 wrote:
> Do I need to do some kind of special escape sequence in order to
> open it, or is VIM just designed such that I can't do this?

I don't know which OS you're on, but you might try using a backslash
to escape the space:

:e ~/path/to/file\ with\ space

or, you can try using <tab> expansion to let Vim auto-complete the
filename.

-tkc



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