On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I > stumble on weird results. [...] The easy way for me is 'avoid the shell - use Perl instead': perl -e 'my @files = grep(!/^\s*$/,<ARGV>); chomp @files; system("vim", at files);' example_list.txt -- Benjamin Franz