To also handle possible options that a user may pass to Vim, one would have to parse the command line arguments and remove the arguments that are filename operands that corresponds to non-existing names:
vim () {
passthrough=false
for arg do
use_arg=false
case $arg in
--)
passthrough=true
use_arg=true
;;
-*)
if "$passthrough"; then
[ -e "$arg" ] && use_arg=true
else
use_arg=true
fi
;;
*)
[ -e "$arg" ] && use_arg=true
esac
if "$use_arg"; then
set -- "$@" "$arg"
else
printf 'No such file or directory (skipping): %s\n' "$arg" >&2
fi
shift
done
printf '%s\n' "$@"
unset arg passthrough use_arg
command vim "$@"
}
The only tricky bit here is that an -- argument on the command line signals the end of options. This means that every argument after -- needs to be tested as a filename, whereas while we haven't seen a -- we can skip the -e test on anything that starts with a dash.
This function would open the editor with a blank buffer if no existing filenames were given.
