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jerik

Reputation: 5777

Open a file with colon in the filename in vim

I have a strange behaviour which I do not understand. My aim is to open a textfile in vim. The textfile is in the Maildir e-mail format within the Maildir structure.

Information regarding the file

file -I 1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787:2,S
1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787:2,S: message/rfc822; charset=us-ascii
head -n3 1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787:2,S
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.100.34.16 with SMTP id h16cs22337anh;
        Wed, 13 May 2009 04:48:51 -0700 (PDT)

Now the interessting part:

vim 1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787:2,S

And the I get (| symbolize the cursor):

|
~
~

How can I open the file in vim?

What I discovered, it is something with the : in the filename. If I remove it from the filename, I can open it vim as wanted.

First Conclusion: It seems to be an issue with the file-system/OS and the handover to vim. Because, in python I can open the file with the colon in the filename.

I tried to escape the colon with \ but it did not have any positive effect. Vim seems not to find the file and open up in a new (empty) buffer.

vim 1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787\:2,S

Additional information: Mac OSX 10.13.6; VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2

Workaround

I found a workaround for me:

cat 1410209267.M96643P11892.10140.foo.bar,S=4660,W=4787:2,S | vim -

Upvotes: 3

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