Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-28 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Tony Mechelynck wrote: > Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > >> here are a few examples; some of them use a fictional "subject": > > > > Nice overview. Let me add this to the user manual. > > > > In the paragraph about :help pattern with 'wildmenu' on, I let > myself be car

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Tony Mechelynck wrote: here are a few examples; some of them use a fictional "subject": Nice overview. Let me add this to the user manual. In the paragraph about :help pattern with 'wildmenu' on, I let myself be carried away: and don't apply to the wildmenu for he

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-27 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Tony Mechelynck wrote: > here are a few examples; some of them use a fictional "subject": Nice overview. Let me add this to the user manual. -- panic("Fod fight!"); -- In the kernel source aha1542.c, after detecting a bad segment list /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:39:08PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:00PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..] > > > >Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. > > > >(Before writing, one must learn to think) .. (rough translation) > > Let's try to recapture

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:00PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: cga2000 wrote: [...] I find the exercise useful since as, I believe, A. Einstein once remarked .. if you can't explain it .. you don't fully understand it .. or something to that effect. Some French author of the 17th

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:06:12PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: [..] > >2. How to use vim's help efficiently > here are a few examples; some of them use a fictional "subject": > > :help > gives you very general help. Start scrolling and you will >

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:00PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > [...] > >I find the exercise useful since as, I believe, A. Einstein once > >remarked .. if you can't explain it .. you don't fully understand it .. > >or something to that effect. > > Some French author of the 17th c

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: [...] I find the exercise useful since as, I believe, A. Einstein once remarked .. if you can't explain it .. you don't fully understand it .. or something to that effect. Some French author of the 17th century I think (Boileau?): Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement Et le

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
cga2000 wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:39PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..] - To change (once) to the dir of the current file :cd %:p:h Nice. But I'm not going to remember it until I understand it. I scoured the :help files but couldn't find and explanation of the syntax.

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:32:19PM EST, Tim Chase wrote: > >>- To change (once) to the dir of the current file > >> > >>:cd %:p:h > > [..] > > If you're impatient, full details can be found at > > :help filename-modifiers > > >2. How to use vim's help efficiently > > There are severa

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:24:33PM EST, Sibin P. Thomas wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: cga2000 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:28 PM > To: vim@vim.org > Subject: Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread Christian Ebert
* cga2000 on Monday, February 26, 2007 at 11:57:39 -0500: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:39PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >> - To change (once) to the dir of the current file >> >> :cd %:p:h > > Nice. > > But I'm not going to remember it until I understand it. > > I scoured the :help file

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Chase
- To change (once) to the dir of the current file :cd %:p:h Nice. But I'm not going to remember it until I understand it. I scoured the :help files but couldn't find and explanation of the syntax. :p is short for :print and :h is help. So there's two things I don't know: 1. The

RE: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread Sibin P. Thomas
-Original Message- From: cga2000 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:28 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim? On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:39PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..] > >

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-26 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:57:39PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [..] > > - To change (once) to the dir of the current file > > :cd %:p:h Nice. But I'm not going to remember it until I understand it. I scoured the :help files but couldn't find and explanation of the syntax. :p is short f

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Noah Spurrier wrote: How do I configure Gvim so that the current directory follows the active document? I know I've seen this somewhere in the Vim docs, but none of my searches are turning it up now. When I'm editing a document in Gvim, I find that Gvim always uses my home directory as the worki

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-25 Thread Thor Andreassen
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:50:41PM -0600, Bill McCarthy wrote: > On Sun 25-Feb-07 6:22pm -0600, Noah Spurrier wrote: > > How do I configure Gvim so that the current directory > > follows the active document? > > Try this: > autocmd BufReadPost * lcd %:h You could also try :set autochdir, see :h

Re: How do I make the current working directory follow the active document in Gvim?

2007-02-25 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sun 25-Feb-07 6:22pm -0600, Noah Spurrier wrote: > How do I configure Gvim so that the current directory > follows the active document? Try this: autocmd BufReadPost * lcd %:h -- Best regards, Bill