Problem with expanding wildcards.

[straywarrior]

I installed vim-template on both OS X and Ubuntu and my Vim version is 7.4.
However, Vim cannot find the template files.
I find that the command "find -L ..." cannot be executed correctly in Vim:

But this command is working well in my shell, so it might be Vim's problem.

So, I modify the templates.vim to disable the use of "find" and now it works temporarily.
Is there something wrong with my Vim? I think there should be another way to solve this problem.

Thank you.

[aperezdc]

In you screenshot it seems that you are trying to use Vim's :find (an Ex command), which does not have any to do with the invocation of find program from the system. That being said, I do not know why the plugin is not behaving correctly for you. Would you mind executing the following from Vim and writing back the result?:

:echo glob("`find -L '/Users/straywarrior/Documents/Developers/practice/network_programming/' -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.vim-template:*'`")

[straywarrior]

Thank you.
I execute the ":echo glob(...)" in Vim but there's nothing printed...
I'm sure there are sample templates in ~/.vim/bundle/vim-template/templates/. I try to execute something like this in Vim but there is no result returned either. (The results in Ubuntu and OS X have no difference.)

:echo glob("`find -L '/home/fzt/.vim/bundle/vim-template/templates/' -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '=template=*'`")

[muff1nman]

Hmm. I'll try to get a hold of a macbook in the next couple days to see if I can reproduce.

[aperezdc]

@muff1nman: that would be awesome, I don't have an easy way of getting access to a MacOS X machine right now and I cannot investigate this further. Thanks a lot for offering to look into the issue :)

[muff1nman]

vim-template seems to work fine on a near default install of Mac OSX - I installed the developer tools to use git. Are you also having this issue with Ubuntu? Can you please add let g:templates_debug=1 to your .vimrc and then post the results of editing a file with logging enabled? e.g. vim -V9vim-template.log test.txt. What variables do you have set in your vimrc?

[straywarrior]

I meet the problem both in Ubuntu and OS X.
But I just found something that may help. I added a set to vimrc:

set shell=/bin/bash

And then my vim-template works well.
I usually use fish shell and I know there are some differences between fish and bash. However, the command below can be executed correctly in fish.

find -L '/home/fzt/.vim/bundle/vim-template/templates/' -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '=template=*'

So I don't know the exact reason why vim-template cannot work without setting shell to bash.

Thank you all.

[aperezdc]

@straywarrior: That is very interesting, but I have installed fish in my machine, and I cannot reproduce the issue by adding this in my ~/.vimrc:

set shell=/bin/fish

but I cannot reproduce the issue either. I have also tried running Vim from inside fish and overwriting the SHELL environment variable, like this:

hikary ~ % fish  # Inside Zsh, this starts Fish
aperez@hikari ~> export SHELL=/bin/fish  # Inside Fish, set variable
aperez@hikari ~> vim foo.c  # Still inside Fish, try to create a new file with Vim

but still I cannot reproduce the issue.

Here I have Fish version 2.2.0 with its default configuration. Which version of fish are you using? Do you have changed any options which may affect shell expansion and/or globbing?

[dbellavista]

I have the same problem with fish. And I can reproduce on Mac osx (default shell fish)

daniele ~> bash # inside fish, start bash
bash$ export SHELL=/bin/bash
bash$ vim

Executing :echo glob("find . -print -maxdepth 1") shows the file list.

PS: I have not hardcoded the vim shell value.

[aperezdc]

@dbellavista @straywarrior Can any of you confirm that you got the plug-in working when using Fish as well? Or is the bug still there for you?

[dbellavista]

@aperezdc works for me with fish shell. Ty

[aperezdc]

Thanks for the confirmation @dbellavista! Let's close this issue now — it can be reopened if needed later on.