Re: Excluding autocommands for files matching an exclusion pattern

On 16 October 2015, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:38:21AM -0400, VML VWS wrote:
> >> Hi Tony,
> >>
> >> Reading :h <amatch>, I'm unable to tell whether <amatch> would be the
> >> basename or the full pathname of the matched file. Could you say?
> >
> > According to :h <amatch> it's <afile> in this case which is only
> > the file name.
> >
> > Regards
> > Simon
>
> According to the help, at the BufWritePost event <afile> and <amatch>
> are the same:
> <quote>
> <amatch> When executing autocommands, is replaced with the match for
> which this autocommand was executed. It differs from
> <afile> only when the file name isn't used to match with
> (for FileType, Syntax and SpellFileMissing events).
> </quote>

Sadly, that last part is not true. <amatch> is always a full path,
while <afile> is shortened. For more details:

http://vi.stackexchange.com/a/4526/2313

/lcd

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