_sc_ wrote:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 1:50 pm, Manfred Lotz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I had
>> autocmd BufEnter * lcd %:p:h
>> in my ~/.vimrc
>>
>> However, when using netrw this yields an error.
>>
>>
>>
>> My workaround is:
>>
>> function Lcd()
>> let b = bufname("%")
>> let pat = ":\/\/"
>>
>> if ! (b =~ pat)
>> lcd %:p:h
>> endif
>> endfunction
>>
>> autocmd BufEnter * call Lcd()
>>
>>
>> My question as a vim newbie: Is this a good solution or is there a much
>> simpler and mores idiomatic way to solve the issue?
>
> the simplest of all: upgrade your netrw
>
> you'll see a version for netrw in the banner -- currently mine
> reads v136h -- if your netrw reports anything less than that, i
> recommend an upgrade -- visit
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW
>
> for the absolute latest and greatest netrw
>
> the reason i recommend an upgrade is that very recently there was a
> bugfix to netrw that addressed the autochdir option -- i had turned
> 'autochdir' on, and it was causing problems for me in netrw -- i
> started using the BufEnter autocmd to lcd to %:p:h as a work
> around, much as you are, but netrw was fixed and there's no reason
> i am aware of that i can't go back to using 'autochdir'
>
I have version 132 what can be seen from
/usr/local/share/vim/vim72/autoload/netrw.vim
This was included with vim which is vim-7.2.132 on FreeBSD.
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Manfred
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