Re: [vile] Invoking vile on non-existent files

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Decklin Foster wrote:

> I just noticed something odd:
>
> $ mkdir foo bar
> $ vile foo/file bar/file
>
> vile comes up with one buffer, named file, for ./bar/file. This only
> happens if the not-yet-created files have the same name. I can also
> reproduce this behavior by starting vile and then loading foo/file and
> bar/file with :e (the first buffer gets obliterated).

I see (now that I'm looking ;-).

thanks - will fix...

> Seems like the code to find a file and put it in a buffer falls back to
> matching on the basename for some reason if the files don't exist and
> they haven't been modified yet. I'm not sure why from looking at it,
> though.

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