On Nov 16, 12:26 pm, madiyaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 5:16 pm, "Chris Suter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > you could do a mapping such as the following:
>
> > :cmap %/ ^R%^FF/lC
>
> Thank you. This would be something very useful. However, it doesn't
> work in my current vim. When I put in just this:
>
> > :cmap %/ ^R%
>
> It does place the entire full path of the current file in there. But
> if I put in the full command that you wrote here, it instead shows me
> a history of commands (basically the same window when I do q:) instead
> of leaving me with the path of the current file. Any ideas what could
> be going wrong? I entered the digraphs correctly as it shows me those
> in a different color when I wrote them to my .vimrc file.
>
> Also, I tried entering F/lC while in normal mode in front of a path in
> a regular buffer, and it worked. It seems to me that ^F is not doing
> what it should be doing (i.e. it is not putting me into normal mode on
> the Ex line). Any help would be appreciated.
OK, I figured this one out:
cmap %/ ^R%^F$F/lC
works as expected, and I thank you for it (there was a missing $). But
it would be really really useful if it copied this command back to the
Ex command line and not in a separate Ex buffer. That way I could use
tab and vim would autocomplete the filename for me.
So once again, thanks a lot, but I would appreciate if you could tell
me a way to copy this back to the Ex command line (from the Ex history
buffer).
Thanks,
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> > the control characters ^R and ^F can be entered as digraphs (see :help
> > digraphs, :help CTRL-k, and :digraphs) using these keystrokes:
>
> > ^R - <C-k>D2
> > ^F - <C-k>AK
>
> > the mapping will cause the following to occur when you enter %/ in the Ex
> > command line:
>
> > 1) ^R% causes the current filename to be inserted at the current cursor
> > location
> > 2) ^F switches to cmdwin mode (see :help cmdwin) which lets us use normal
> > mode commands to edit the command line
> > 3) F/ finds the first slash before the cursor (this mapping assumes that the
> > full path of the file you are editing contains a slash)
> > 4) lC (that's a lowercase "L") moves the cursor to the right, deletes the
> > text after, and leaves you in insert mode.
>
> > enjoy! :)
>
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, madiyaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hello:
>
> > > Is there a way to open a file relative to the current file's
> > > directory?
>
> > > I do not want to change the directory to the current file's directory
> > > because I often invoke :!make from the source directory's root. (But
> > > maybe there is a way to change to the current directory, and go back
> > > to the root directory before invoking main... that would be equally
> > > useful to me).
>
> > > For example, I am in project/ and I invoke:
>
> > > vim lib/tools/tool1.cpp
>
> > > I don't want to change my directory to project/lib/tools/ because when
> > > I invoke :!make, it will use the Makefile in project/lib/tools/ and
> > > not the one that I intend to use, which lies in project/. I am wanting
> > > to know whether I can easily open up project/lib/tools/tool2.cpp
> > > without typing in the entire path.
>
> > > Regards,
>
> > --
> > Christopher Suter
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