Re: Apparent bug with file upward-search on Windows

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 2:16:03 PM UTC-5, Brett Stahlman wrote:
> Hello,
> I've read the section on upward search (:help file-searching), and believe I
> understand how it's supposed to work. The example in the help works the way I
> expect on Linux, but not on Windows.
>
> Specifically, I created the following set of files and directories to match
> the example from the help:
>
> C:/Users/stahlmanb/tmp/u/user_x/work/release/test.c
> C:/Users/stahlmanb/tmp/u/user_x/include/test.h
>
> Note: To make things work on Windows, I've simply replaced Linux `/' with the
> following Windows path: C:/Users/stahlmanb/tmp/
>
> Then, within Vim...
> cd C:/Users/stahlmanb/tmp/u/user_x/work/release
> e test.c
> set path=include;C:/Users/stahlmanb/tmp/u/user_x
>
> Hitting gf with the cursor positioned on test.h (inside test.c) produces...
> E447: Can't find file "test.h" in path
>

I also get this behavior on Windows in 7.4.292; likewise :find errors and tab-completion of :find just beeps.

I tried omitting the "C:", and also adding a trailing "/" character, because of this statement in :help 'path': "A directory name may end in a ':' or '/'."

Neither change made any difference.

I think the problem is that u/user_x/work/release/include directory did not exist.

When I create that directory, the upward search works to find ../../include/test.h.

I think the relative path given as the search directory prior to the stop directories, actually needs to exist.

I'm not sure whether this is documented, or even intentional.

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