Prevent vim from opening binary files accidentally?

Question

I frequently accidentally open a binary executable, i.e. \"foo\", when I mean to open the associated source code \"foo.cpp\". The root of the problem is that tab completion, i.

Answer 1

Not exactly what you need, but I have something like this in my .vimrc

" ignore these files when completing names and in Ex
set wildignore=.svn,CVS,.git,*.o,*.a,*.class,*.mo,*.la,*.so,*.obj,*.swp,*.jpg,*.png,*.xpm,*.gif,*.pdf,*.bak,*.beam
" set of file name suffixes that will be given a lower priority when it comes to matching wildcards
set suffixes+=.old