On 04/29/2023 9:26 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Briefly, I have a case where glob("*.ext") returns more files than I
expect.
To give an example, in a directory of your choice create two files named
"test.any" and "zest.anyother". The important detail is that the second
filename's extension be prefixed by the first filename's extension.
Then launch Vim in that directory and run the command
:echo glob("*.any")
Both files are returned, not just "test.any".
I see this on Windows running vim 9.0.1240 with normal features built
with Visual C. On the other hand, Vim on my linux box returns only
"test.any", as I would expect, so I don't think this a feature. :)
Any comments?
What file system is being used?
Windows 10 with NTFS.
Some older filesystems use a trick to
make long file names possible. The file then appears twice in the
directory, once with the short name and once with the long name. Vim
may find a match with the short name, includes it in the list of
matches and then expands it to the long name.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename
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