The following reply was made to PR bin/11544; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alex Plotnick <shrike@netaxs.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/11544
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:48:46 -0400

 >Release:	NetBSD 3.99.9
 
 >Description:
 
 The 6 Sep 2005 checkin by aymeric seems to have broken file completion when
 filec is set to <tab>.
 
 >How-To-Repeat:
 
 Start vi.
 :set filec=\<tab>
 :e foo<tab>
 => file completion is not invoked.
 
 This is with usr.bin/vi/vi/v_txt.c revision 1.14.