Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Charles Campbell wrote: > >> William S Fulton wrote: >> >>> run: gvim . >>> on Windows at bottom it will say, eg: "C:\" Illegal file name >>> on Solaris and Linux at the bottom it will say, eg: . is a >>> directory >>> >>> The Unix message is less confusing. Can this for Windows >>> versions as it still occurs in vim7.0f? Same message appears >>> when doing :new . >> >> I haven't found any way to avoid these messages with netrw, so >> it sounds like an issue for Bram M. > > This is a valid message. At the moment it's given Vim doesn't > know yet (for sure) that some autocommand will kick in to handle > it. > > You also get the message on Unix if you do ":e dir/". Can an autocommand see if that specific message is there and erase it or overwrite it (without eliminating some other message)?
--Suresh
