On Friday, April 18, 2014 6:26:12 AM UTC+12, eNG1Ne wrote:
> > Plus point, though: opening a file from the Finder points vim to the
> > directory the file lives in, which is a lot better than Ubuntu's feeble
> > default of opening everything in usr
Erik Falor replied:
> This behavior may have more to do with the setting of the 'autochdir'
> option than with the OS or file manager.
(To which I'll add, setting autochdir can be annoying, and in the past caused
plugins to fail, though there was an effort to make plugins cope.)
eNG1Ne replied:
> something I'll certainly follow up ‒ pity no-one on the Ubuntu forum ever
> suggested it :-}
I looked into this, and I'm still looking. I was surprised to find that the
"desktop entry specification" does not have a generic way to make the working
directory that of the file you edit. I have edited my .desktop file to use the
command
/usr/local/bin/gvim -f +"cd %:h" %F
I use KDE, and the way I got to this .desktop file was right-click a file to
edit in dolphin -> Properties -> File Type Options -> click on gvim, Edit ->
Application tab. (I'd previously had to edit this to make KDE use my local
vim; the command entry does not honour my PATH, despite determined effort on my
part, including setting it system-wide).
By editing the .desktop entry, KDE made a private copy of it in
~/.local/share/applications. Gnome should work the same way, and I presume
other DEs like Unity or whatever Ubuntu has these days.
More generically, I've seen people suggest changing the command to
cd %d;command %F
and that works, but %d is deprecated and now undocumented. Also,
x="%f";cd "${x%/*}";command %F
works too, but the "desktop entry specification" says one should have only one
of %f, %F, %u or %U appearing in the command, and that only once.
Ah, once the curiosity bug bites... I'll take this to my other favourite forum
(kubuntuforums.net) though I expect some KDE forum might be better. Google
shows there was some interest in extending the "desktop entry specification" by
the KDE folks some years ago, though I couldn't find anything more about it,
other than with KDE one can use environment variables in the working directory
setting by using the Path[$e]= syntax.
Regards, John Little
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