On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 12:17:06 PM UTC-4, yega...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:12 AM Manuel Ortega <mannyvim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 5:20:08 PM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > > I think that's the best way we provide this functionality.  But I like
> > > to hear from others.
> >
> > I think this is adding complexity, a maintenance burden, and yet another
> > corner for corner-cases to hide in, all   for the sake of a *very* niche
> > use-case.  (Has anybody complained about this yet in all the years of :lcd
> > existing?)
> >
> 
> When the ":cd -" or ":tcd -" or ":lcd -" commands are used, a user will
> expect to go back to the previous directory. When a tab-local directory
> is used, a user will expect that the previous current directory will be
> the one before the last :tcd command used for the current tabpage. With
> the current implementation, the previous directory will be the current
> directory before invoking the last ":cd" or ":tcd" or ":lcd" command.
> This may not be the expected directory.
> 
> For example, let us say you are using a separate tabpage for each
> project.  You use the ":tcd" command to switch to the project specific
> root directory in each tabpage. Now you change the directory in one of
> the tabpages to look at some files inside the corresponding project. Now
> the previous directory of all the other tabpages will also be changed.
> If you go to some other tabpage and use the ":tcd -" command, the
> current directory will be changed to that of the other project and not
> the current project.  This may not be expected behavior.

This does not address anything in my objection.

-Manny

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