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I ran into a problem when using the quickfix feature of vim. When I open up my source file in vim, a buffer of that file is created, and its name is shown on the status bar, let's say main.cpp.

Then I compile it with :make and jump to next error with quickfix. Because the error message my compiler outputs is always absolute path, e.g. c:\folder1\folder2\main.cpp. If I jump to that error location, then a new buffer of the same file will be opened, but with the absolute path filename.

Then when I edit either of them and save it, the other buffer won't get updated and that's really annoying. I tried set autoread but it doesn't help at all. Do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks a lot!

EDIT: I am running vim on windows.

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    That shouldn't really happen - are you using symlinks (so two paths point to the same file)?
    – laktak
    Jun 22, 2017 at 14:25
  • I don't think so. I am using windows and I didn't do anything like symlinks.
    – ForeignDevil
    Jun 22, 2017 at 19:35
  • Windows is case insensitive - maybe you have different casing somewhere in the path?
    – laktak
    Jun 22, 2017 at 21:16
  • Yes, that is exactly the problem, thanks for leading me to that direction! Quickfix's output is always lowercased, so in order to match with its output, I changed the entire path to lowercase, except the leading ":C", since I can't change it. Because they have different casings, jump-to-error still directs me to a new buffer. Do you know what I can do to have the quickfix window output path with correct casing?
    – ForeignDevil
    Jun 22, 2017 at 23:30

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Check that fileignorecase is set (set fileignorecase?) even though it should be the default on Windows:

                'fileignorecase' 'fic' 'nofileignorecase' 'nofic'
'fileignorecase' 'fic'  boolean (default on for systems where case in file
                                 names is normally ignored)
                        global
                        {not in Vi}
        When set case is ignored when using file names and directories.
        See 'wildignorecase' for only ignoring case when doing completion.

You are using the native Windows vim exe (not cygwin)?

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  • Yes, that seems to be the problem. After I set it it fixed the problem. Thanks a lot man!
    – ForeignDevil
    Jun 29, 2017 at 19:52

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