From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  small bug in "vi"
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.938
Posted: Sat Apr  2 20:00:34 1983
Received: Tue Apr 19 01:21:02 1983

From:  Chris Torek <chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>

From: Charles F. Von Rospach <CHUQUI@MIT-MC>

	Another problem with vi is this:

	:e foo* 

	returns 'Too many filenames' even when there is only one.
	It looks as though vi sees the * as a meta character and
	returns an error without checking the expansion...

Actually, it opens a pipe to your shell and gives it the command
``echo foo*''.  The shell echos ``foobar'' (or whatever) AND a
newline.  Vi gets confused by the newline, I think.  Look in ex_io.c
for the function glob(), and its caller.  I'd try to fix it but I
find that the shell takes too long to start up anyway, and I'm
better off just typing the whole name.