I am unable to reproduce this using vim in 9.04, so it appears the issue has been fixed. All of the given examples worked in vim and gvim.
$ vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Mar 19 2009 15:27:51) ** Changed in: vim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- vim terminates with SIGABRT after malformed path expansion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409028 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs