On 2007-05-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, vimmers:
>
> The line 1230 of editing.txt said:
>
> To change to the directory of the current file:
> :cd %:h
>
> This works for Vim 7.0 and before, but not for Vim 7.1. In Vim 7.1 when the
> pwd is the same as the directory of current file, the command will fail
> with E500. The failure will break the execution of a mapping, if one have a
> mapping to do :cd %:h and then continue to do something else.
>
> To reproduce the error, just at anytime, run :cd %:h twice. (I've got
> Windows gvim7.1.1, cygwin console vim 7.1.1)
I would expect ":cd %:h" to give an error the second time it is
executed. Just to be sure, I repeated your experiment on 7.1, 7.0
and 6.4 on Unix and 7.0 on Windows. I always got E500. Are you
sure that it "works" for you for Vim 7.0?
> So there's at least two issues IMHO:
> 1. the line 1230 of editing.txt should be changed to :cd %:p:h
I disagree. If you want to _change_ directory to that of the
current file, the command ":cd %:h" is correct. If the working
directory is already that of the current file, such that executing
":cd %:h" would give E500, then there is no reason to change
directory.
> 2. somewhere in the document should mention: if we had used :cd %:h in our
> mappings or scripts, we should change them into %:p:h after upgraded to vim
> 7.1.
I don't see that this behavior has changed.
Regards,
Gary
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