Hi Ingo!
On Sa, 23 Mär 2013, Ingo Karkat wrote:
> On 23-Mar-13 17:26:13 +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > 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".
Indeed and I really don't mind here. Current version is ok for me.
> Can't we change the patch so that it turns into the relative upwards move ".."
> (then "../..", etc.)?! This way, it stays relative, and one has to use :p to
> get
> absolute paths.
You might end up with many ../../../../ and I don't think this help.
regards,
Christian
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