Re: glob-expand-word and vi-command mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/2/24 9:39 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
>  From the manual, glob-expand-word:
>    The word before point is treated as a pattern for pathname expansion,
>    and the list of matching filenames is inserted, replacing the word.
>    If a numeric argument is supplied, an asterisk is appended before
>    pathname expansion.

glob-expand-word doesn't work that great in vi command mode, mostly for
the reasons you suspect. What made you use it over the standard vi mode
binding for `*' (vi-complete)? That behaves like POSIX says it's supposed
to in vi command mode.

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