vis-open: fix creating new files in selected directory

vis-open

@@ -40,11 +40,6 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 -a "$ALLOW_AUTO_SELECT" = 1 ]; then
 	# If there were globs on the command-line, they've expanded to
 	# a single item, so we can just process it.
 
-	# If the file or directory does not exist, abort.
-	if [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
-		exit 1
-	fi
-
 	if [ -d "$1" ]; then
 		# Recurse and show the contents of the named directory,
 		# We pass -f to force the next iteration to present the
@@ -54,10 +49,15 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 -a "$ALLOW_AUTO_SELECT" = 1 ]; then
 		exec "$0" -p "$VIS_MENU_PROMPT" -f .. $(ls -1)
 	else
 		# We've found a single item, and it's not a directory,
-		# so it must be a filename (or file-like thing) to open.
-		cd "$(dirname "$1")"
-		echo "$(pwd -P)"/"$(basename "$1")"
-		exit 0
+		# so it must be a filename (or file-like thing) to open,
+		# unless the parent directory does not exist.
+		if [ -d "$(dirname "$1")" ]; then
+			cd "$(dirname "$1")"
+			echo "$(pwd -P)"/"$(basename "$1" | sed 's/\*$//')"
+			exit 0
+		else
+			exit 1
+		fi
 	fi
 fi