Re: How to find a file.
--- Zheng Da [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? Hello, If you prefix '**/' to the filename, Vim should search through subdirectories for the file: :edit **/space.cc :find **/space.cc Also, if you use CTRL+D, Vim will show you a list of matching files: :find **/space.ccCTRL+D src/space.cc src/backup/space.cc regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Music: Create your own personalised radio station. http://au.launch.yahoo.com/
Re: How to find a file.
I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. -- With regards Zheng Da On 10/15/06, Hari Krishna Dara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 at 3:41pm, Zheng Da wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? You got the answer for using :find command already, but I would like to suggest you to try my LookupFile plugin that allows you to use the Vim7 popup completion to do this using custom tags files. http://www.vim.org//script.php?script_id=1581 -- HTH, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: How to find a file.
Zheng Da wrote: I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. Try (untested) :set path=** to search only in the current directory and below, or :set path+=** to add the whole tree starting at the current directory going down, to whatever 'path' is already set to. This method uses no popup menu, it merely changes the set of directories searched by the :find command. Best regards, Tony.
Re: How to find a file.
I guess this may not be all you want, for example, if you want to search files in ~/src, now you got a file in ~/src/abc/def/. Then your current directory is ~/src/abc/def/. and when you need to search within ~/src again to find something in ~/src/ghi/jkl/., how to do that? I recommend a probably better approach, just create a filelist inside the ~/src, you can use the following command to create the file list: in ~/src: find . filelist okay, now each time you want to search for file, just open the filelist, and search for the filename, when you've got the desired file, use gf to open the file. You can also map a shortcut-key to open the filelist. for example: I use f12 to open the file list, press f12 and now the filelist opens. use /foobar.txt and press enter to search for the file, if the file has multiple occorences, press n. when you've got the file, press gf and the file will be opened. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Zheng Da [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 22:24:47: I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. -- With regards Zheng Da On 10/15/06, Hari Krishna Dara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 at 3:41pm, Zheng Da wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? You got the answer for using :find command already, but I would like to suggest you to try my LookupFile plugin that allows you to use the Vim7 popup completion to do this using custom tags files. http://www.vim.org//script.php?script_id=1581 -- HTH, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
How to find a file.
Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? -- With regards Zheng Da
Re: How to find a file.
Zheng Da wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? Maybe the file is not in that 'path'? Try expanding it, e.g., :set path=.,,/usr/local/include,/usr/include,/usr/X11R6/include or anything that you might think likely. Or try looking into the source of a (working) module which includes the file you're looking for. If you're desperate, try setting 'path' temporarily to /**/* to search (this time) in your whole hard drive. But in that case this may take several minutes as the Microsoft upgrades say, so you shouldn't leave 'path' set at that value any longer than necessary. Best regards, Tony.
Re: How to find a file.
On 10/15/06, Zheng Da [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? Try 'set acd'. Maybe you expect that '.' is same as dir of currently open file but it actually isn't. Failing that, try the following: Try to create reproducible sequence of commands starting from 'vim -u NONE' that demonstrates the problem in such simplest and compelte way that others can reproduce it. Send this sequence to the list. For example: cd ~ touch x.cc # create file x.cc in current directory cd /tmp vim -u NONE # start vim with all default/clean settings set path=.,/usr/include,, find Yakov Yakov
