On 16/09/12 19:01, Timothy Madden wrote:
On 09/16/2012 07:34 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 16/09/12 15:18, Timothy Madden wrote:
Hello
In some situation if I try to edit a file like with
:edit plugin/script.vim
I may end up with a buffer name like '../.vim/plugin/script.vim'
Note though two paths are equivalent, assuming the current directory is
named ".vim", still the buffer names are not the same in a literal
sense.
This will happen when I already have the file opened (or listed) with
the long name (../.vim/plugin/script.vim), then I try to :edit it in a
different window with the short name.
In my script I would like to use :MkVimball command plugin from the
standard vimball plugin, and if I ran into this problem than MkVimball
will create for example a file like ../../src/vim/plugin/scriptname.vim
in the vimball archive. Even if the filename I pass to MkVimball really
is the right one, plugin/scriptname.vim.
For this to trigger, the MkVimball command should be seen from within a
:source'd script, and not directly from the command line. Anyway, I
think this should not happen (actually, I find this a bug in the
standard vimballPlugin, but that is another problem).
Is there a way to know if a file is already loaded/listed in a buffer,
with a modified path name like ../dir/script.vim instead of script.vim ?
Are there other cases where such a different path name may exist ?
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
Vim identifies files by their full path, but displays them (e.g. on the
statusline) by a shorter path if possible. If you have several windows
on a single buffer, but with different "local current directories", it
may happen that Vim can shorten the name in one window but not in the
other. However it should display all statuslines relative to what is the
current directory now: if you change windows, and the LCDs are
different, statuslines may change.
I have the same file, the same directory, two windows with no local
directory, and the same file name in both (in other words, one buffer
with two windows).
The problem is the file name is ../.vim/plugin/script.vim, and I want to
open plugin/script.vim
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
When I have a file opened in a window with the long name, and then I use
:sv or :new with the short name as argument, then both statuslines
display the short name from then on, howsoever I switch windows among
them. Example:
:pwd
/root/.mozilla/seamonkey/nexrdon9.default
:sv ../nexrdon9.default/chrome/userChrome.css
statusline says: ../nexrdon9.default/chrome/userChrome.css
:sv chrome/userChrome.css
_both_ statuslines say: chrome/userChrome.css
Ctrl-W p
both statuslines still say: chrome/userChrome.css
Similarly with
../../seamonkey/nexrdon9.default/chrome/userContent-example.css : as
soon as I supply the short name, _both_ windows for that file get (and
keep) the short name in their statusline.
What happens if you open the file in a window with the short name first,
and then pass expand('%') to MkVimball?
FWIW, I'm using gvim 7.3.661 (Huge) with GTK2-GNOME GUI.
Best regards,
Tony.
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