Compilation keybinds for different filetypes in vimrc

Question

I am trying to create some keybind "scripts" for specified file types in my .vimrc. Example :

 au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cpp
   \ nnoremap <C-P> :!g++ % -o %.exe <CR>

Ideally I would like to name output file type just the name of the file without any extension. Example :

filename : test.cpp

output of compilation : test

Another example - I am working with assembly and compiling test.asm will produce among some others test.hex which I would love to use in another keybind as an argument passed to an emulator. Is this achieveable in .vimrc?

Answer 1

You can use:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cpp nnoremap <buffer> <C-P> :!g++ % -o %< <CR>

The %< will remove the extension from the current file. I use this for example to open the pdf version of the currently edited latex document using :!xpdf %<.pdf

See also the help section :h filename-modifiers It contains all the different modifiers as well as many examples.

Note: I changed your mapping to be buffer-local. This makes sense as you do want that action only to trigger for cpp files (and not also for other buffers where your cursor is in after the above autocommand triggered). See the help at :help :map-<buffer>

Answer 2

You can check this: vim.fandom.com/wiki/Get_the_name_of_the_current_file

Try these:

:echo expand('%:t')

:echo expand('%:e')

So % is the current file, the full path. The :t and :e modifiers are for the file name with extension and without, respectively.