Re: Not working wildcards in findfile()

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Fr, 21 Jun 2013, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > On Do, 20 Jun 2013, Markus Braun wrote:
> >
> > > I have a question about using wildcards in the path argument to findfile()
> > > function. When running these commands
> > >
> > > mkdir -p "test/dir-1/" && touch "test/dir-1/foo"
> > > mkdir -p "test/dir-2/" && touch "test/dir-2/foo"
> > > mkdir -p "test/dir-3/" && touch "test/dir-3/foo"
> > > vim -u NONE -c "echo string(findfile('foo', 'test/*', -1))|call input('press ENTER to exit')|q"
> > > vim -u NONE -c "echo string(findfile('foo', 'test/dir-*', -1))|call input('press ENTER to exit')|q"
> > >
> > > I would expect vim to output both times the same output of
> > >
> > > ['test/dir-1/foo', 'test/dir-2/foo', 'test/dir-3/foo']
> > >
> > > but the second vim instance only gives
> > >
> > > []
> > >
> > > I don't understand this behavior. What am I doing wrong here?
> >
> > Looks like a bug. I almost have a working patch. I need to test it some
> > more...
>
> Bram,
> here is a patch, that makes findfile() behave as expected. Problem is,
> findfile() currently expects wildcards to be only after a valid
> directory name and for cases like findfile('test19.in', 'src/test*') (in
> Vim source directory), it tries to find a file 'test19.in' in a
> directory vim/src/test/ which doesn't exists and therefore fails.
>
> Patch contains a test.

Thanks!

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