Comment by oguz-ismail

> your implicit claim of having tried it

I tried printing positional parameters, they looked fine. (And already uninstalled docker. What's the point of containerization if you need superuser privileges to use it?)

> if $user_provided_path is empty, it defaults to browsing the filesystem

That's what

    vim -- ""

does.

> But there are a lot of characters there that are specifically there to avoid footguns

What are those characters? --? That's not a lot