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authorzeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>2023-09-28 05:09:21 +0800
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vim-patch:9.0.1946: filename expansion using ** in bash may fail
Problem: filename expansion using ** in bash may fail Solution: Try to enable the globstar setting Starting with bash 4.0 it supports extended globbing using the globstar shell option. This makes matching recursively below a certain directory using the ** pattern work as expected nowadays. However, we need to explicitly enable this using the 'shopt -s globstar' bash command. So let's check the bash environment variable $BASH_VERSINFO (which is supported since bash 3.0 and conditionally enable the globstar option, if the major version is at least 4. For older bashs, this at least shouldn't cause errors (unless one is using really ancient bash 2.X or something). closes: vim/vim#13002 closes: vim/vim#13144 https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/9eb1ce531527a7177d16373b0f8689bbcd3d5f73 Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
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-rw-r--r--runtime/doc/editing.txt4
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diff --git a/runtime/doc/editing.txt b/runtime/doc/editing.txt
index 2f44256138..abfe466b07 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/editing.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/editing.txt
@@ -356,7 +356,9 @@ as a wildcard when "[" is in the 'isfname' option. A simple way to avoid this
is to use "path\[[]abc]", this matches the file "path\[abc]".
*starstar-wildcard*
-Expanding "**" is possible on Unix, Win32, macOS and a few other systems.
+Expanding "**" is possible on Unix, Win32, macOS and a few other systems (but
+it may depend on your 'shell' setting. It's known to work correctly for zsh; for
+bash this requires at least bash version >= 4.X).
This allows searching a directory tree. This goes up to 100 directories deep.
Note there are some commands where this works slightly differently, see
|file-searching|.