I'm trying to identify a pattern in the madness, but so far as I can see
it is just "randomly". Sometimes I think I have found concrete
reproduction steps, but then I repeat them in a clean environment and it
doesn't happen, but a while later it happens again. Give me time, I'll
get to the bottom of it!

MAx

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 12:30 PM
> To: Max Dyckhoff
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Working directory problems
> 
> 
> Max Dyckhoff wrote:
> 
> > I have some issues with the working directory in vim that I really
> > cannot get to the bottom of. I have tried looking through the help,
and
> > I've searched the Interweb too, to no avail, so I thought I would
turn
> > to this trusty mailing list!
> >
> > I operate a single vim instance with multiple files open in multiple
> > splits. The common working directory for my code files is
> > c:\<project>\main\source\, and the majority of the files therein lie
in
> > ai\<filename>. Normally the vim split status line shows the file as
> > being ai\<filename>, namely the relative path from the working
directory
> > of c:\<project>\main\source\.
> >
> > When I open a new file - which I invariably do using "sf
<filename>", as
> > I have all the appropriate directories in my path - occasionally the
> > statusline shows as the absolute path, namely
> > c:\<project>\main\source\ai\<filename>. If I perform the command "cd
> > c:\<project>\main\source", then the status line fixes itself. It
should
> > be noted that the status line is only incorrect for the new file;
> > existing files are still fine.
> 
> "occasionally" is the key here.  Can you figure out when this happens?
> 
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