Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Sa, 23 Mär 2013, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> 
> > Dear Vim_Dev,
> > 
> > If one is in the directory of the current file '%:h:h' expands to '.',
> > while it should expand tas '%:p:h:h' does.  This is probably is not very
> > useful case since using '../' is much simpler, though it might be used
> > in a plugin (I've never been hit by this though).  Expansion of '%:h:h'
> > works fine when the current directory is not where the current file is.
> > 
> > Another, similar issue is when the current file is:
> > /home/user/directory/file.txt
> > and the current directory is 
> > /home/user
> > 
> > Then both '%:h:h' and '%:h:h:h' expand to '.'.
> 
> I think this patch fixes it. It does so, by noticing, whether *fnamep 
> has been set to '.' and if so and we are still trying to resolve one 
> level up, will resolve '.' to an absolute path.

I don't really like this.  If one wants to go above the current
directory you can use ":p".  If it's not there then turning the path
into an absolute path is, well, unexpected.

What problem are we fixing here?


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