Hi Bram, > Not quite so. The absolute file name is always used, so that no matter > what you do with the current directory you are still editing the same > file. The shorter file name is displayed when this is appropriate.
I'm not quite following you. I was just talking about how names are shown, not the way vim uses them. It's ok that "the absolute file name is always used". So I think we agree on this point. > Depends on how you look at it. In any way ":cd ." shortens all file > names, so use that if you prefer short names. If we would always use At first I rationalized the behavior as: "the original name is like I entered it (absolute or relative); then, if I want to make it relative, I use cd". But IMO this doesn't hold because I may use cd for other reasons than making paths (show) relative. In other words, if my intention was to keep some name (being shown) absolute, now every cd or lcd will anyways relativize it, defeating my goal. So I don't think the current behavior can be justified on the basis of giving the user the choice of showing buffer names relative or absolute. Cheers -- Carlos -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
