patch 8.1.1378: delete() can not handle a file name that looks like a pattern commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/701ff0a3e53d253d7300c385e582659bbff7860d Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri May 24 14:14:14 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1378: delete() can not handle a file name that looks like a pattern Problem: Delete() can not handle a file name that looks like a pattern. Solution: Use readdir() instead of appending "/*" and expanding wildcards. (Ken Takata, closes #4424, closes #696)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!