Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
> > > The help on glob() or globpath() don't indicate what type of
> > > metacharacters are accepted, but there is a separate section called
> > > |file-pattern| that describes the metacharacters used for filename
> > > matching for autocommands. I don't know if these are applicable for
> > > glob() and globpath() as well, but a lot of these don't seem to work as
> > > described. Is there a different section that I am missing to see, or is
> > > it completely left out? Are the metacharacters predictable, or dependent
> > > on the platform and environment? If so, is there a base set that could
> > > work on all?
> > >
> > > The reason I am asking is that I would like to translate a
> > > filename-pattern to a Vim regex-pattern such that I can highlight the
> > > part of the filename that matched the filename-pattern, after getting
> > > the results from glob() or globpath(), so I need to know all the
> > > supported chars.
> >
> > glob() should work as described at ":help wildcard". There are
> > small differences depending on the system.
>
> Thanks Bram. This covers "**" as well, but doesn't mention most of the
> other wildcards that are applicable for |file-pattern|, which makes
> sense. I was however surprised to see "{}" working to group patterns and
> "," working to separate patterns with in them. Is this something extra
> for windows and undocumented?
For Unix the {} things are detected and then expansion is done by the
shell. I don't see how {} things can work on MS-Windows. Perhaps you
compiled with Cygwin?
> It is also strange that the [abc] wildcard
> always matches as if 'ignorecase' is turned on. Is there a way to force
> a 'noignorecase' on windows?
On MS-Windows case of file names is always ignored.
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