Ubuntu
vim package

vim confused by \~/

Bug #1903057 reported by gregrwm on 2020-11-05

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	vim	Unknown	Unknown	auto-github-vim-vim #8015
	vim (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

$ cd
$ mkdir \~
$ echo content a>\~/a
$ echo content b>b
$ less \~/a b
:n
:e#
:q
$ vim \~/a b
:n
:e#

less is not confused, but vim has forgotten where the first file was.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vim 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 5 08:50:54 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-16 (354 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
TERM=screen
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vim
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)