wildcard option breaks expand and causes errors

[volo1st]

Environments:

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• NeoVim v0.2.0

Steps to replicate:

mkdir static
cd static
touch test.md
nvim test.md

and you will see this error:

[alanhamlett]

Unable to reproduce this issue.

Tested with Ubuntu 16.04 and NeoVim 0.1.7.

[volo1st]

After some digging with isolated vim config, the root cause is this line in my vim config:
set wildignore+=*/static/*
which somehow makes vim-wakatime cannot find the file.
It is still weird though why the error message saying

E482: Can't open file /.wakatime.cfg for writing: permission denied

which is a bit misleading

[alanhamlett]

Thanks for figuring it out, you can add that back to your vimrc after updating the vim-wakatime plugin since it's been fixed now.

When a wildcard pattern matches the folder Vim/NeoVim is opened from it causes expand('~') to return empty string instead of your home directory. Setting &wildcard to empty string temporarily while loading the plugin fixed it.

[volo1st]

Thanks for the nice explanation, the fix work like a charm!