Hong Xu wrote: > >> This patch makes the three commands: mkvimrc, mksession and mkexrc > >> commands could have a directory name as its argument. If the argument is > >> a directory, Then the file, which is the .vimrc, Session.vim or .exrc, > >> is generated under the directory and is named as the default file name > >> (which is .vimrc, Session.vim, .exrc respectively). > > > > I don't see much advantage in this. Why would the user not type the > > path including the file name? Currently you would do: > > > > :mkvimrc ~/.vim/.vimrc > > > > After this patch: > > > > :mkvimrc ~/.vim > > > > It's not really the behavior I expect: Either give no file name to use > > the default file name, or specify the file name. > > > > I do see a small danger: if the user accidentally types a wrong name > > that happens to be a directory the file gets written in the wrong place. > > Won't happen often though. > > > > Hello Bram, > > What about regarding the argument as a directory if the argument ends > with a path separator?
What is so difficult about typing the file name as well? When using a directory I would actually expect people to use "vimrc" instead of ".vimrc". -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 64. The remote to the T.V. is missing...and you don't even care. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
