Questions tagged [path]
Questions about the usage of the Vim's path variable. this variable lists the directories which will be searched with commands like `gf`, [f, ]f, ^Wf, `:find`, `:sfind`, `:tabfind`
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How to return to netrw from a file
Suppose that I'm editing a file, then I press :w to store it. And then I use :e. to navigate its containing folder in the netrw. Suppose its containing folder is ./A/B/. In netrw, I open a file with ...
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Ignore folders when performing :find command
I'm using the :find command as my "fuzzy file searcher" in Vim. My setup:
set path=,,**
nnoremap <leader>f :find *
However, I'm having trouble ignoring folders. Huge folders that contain ...
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Efficient way to find & open files deep in a project tree?
Without plugins like ctrlp and NERDTree, what would be the most efficient way to find and open files deep in a project tree?
Setting the path to **/* results in useless files in .git and other ...
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Is Vim's default 'path' option redundant?
From Vim's help document (see: :help 'path'):
'path' String(default on Unix: ".,/usr/include,,")
-To search relative to the directory of the current file, use:
:set path=.
-To search in ...
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Set path to location of tags file
I think this is not quite a duplicate, although it's close.
I often work with multiple, slightly different, checkouts of the same multi-directory project. I'd like to be able to jump around using ...
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Quickfix with makeprg running in a different directory
How can I start a build with my makeprg running in a different directory than the working directory of vim and still catch errors in quickfix so that I can jump between them?
The problem is that ...
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Prevent ^X^F from expanding $HOME
For example, I want to write
$HOME/.vim/
and complete the path with i_CTRL-X_CTRL-F so that it becomes:
$HOME/.vim/syntax/
But what I get is:
/home/username/.vim/syntax/
One workaround I've ...
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Current VimL script path from inside a function
How do I get the path to the currently executing VimL script from inside a function? I know from outside a function, you can use expand('<sfile>'), but if you call that inside a function, you ...
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How do I get "~" (tilde) to expand when using File Name Completion in Insert Mode?
I often complete file paths in Vim using Ctrl-x
Ctrl-f in insert mode, but there is one annoyance: the tilde character does not expand. This is fine for things like bash, but for Python (which does ...
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directory path search for :read
When I use :read <filename> in Vim, does it only look in the current working directory?
Is there a way to set up vim to have the :read read reference multiple directories when attempting to ...
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vim sometimes displays full path of file instead of just the filename?
This may seem a little nit-picky, but I like using the wildmenu to switch between buffers: I do :b and then hit tab until I get to the file I want. The problem is that sometimes, vim shows the entire ...
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Unable to find files after setting path in vim
I open vim with vim -u NONE <filename>, so this ensures that the error is not due to vimrc or plugins. I use checkpath! to dump all files which are present in the path.
:set path?
path=.,/usr/...
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path seperator in vim
I have a vim script, which uses Unix type path separator as:
"Prg: Expand snippets {{{!
let s:plugin_dir=filter(split(&rtp, ','), 'v:val =~ "/vimf90"')[0]
let s:templatedir=s:plugin_dir . '/...
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How to show the path to the current opened file?
If I open a file in vi like:
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Then vi shows in the bottom left corner of the window:
"/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" 1009L, 34418C
But when I edit the file with a or i ...
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Open file under cursor which name starts from slash but force search path to the current directory?
Consider the case of html file that has a form tag with action attribute and value of /login.php:
action="/login.php"
In which case login.php will be searched in the same directory as a ...
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file search with :e
When open a file with :e, it have to be tell the exact path of the file, and even the temporary file will be listed, is there anyway to do
Open a file with only name, and let it automatically search ...
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How do I get vim to read syntax files from `/usr/share/vim/addons/syntax`?
According to the Debian documentation about vim, a Debian package (Ubuntu, really, in my case) is expected to place <name>.vim files under:
/usr/share/vim/addons/...
Syntax files go under a sub-...
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How to keep lcd from affecting other windows?
I usually have one tab containing the code I am working on, and another containing vimwiki. I mostly use neovim.
For the code I prefer the working directory sticking to the project root. For vimwiki ...
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Access a file under subdirectories of a path through gf command
I am using perl.
When I press gf while having the cursor on Testcase, it shows
E447: Can't find file "Testcase.pm" in path.
So I added that path.
It works for files under particular path which ...
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shortcut of the current directory path when vsplit/split
I very often need to open files through vsplit/split. Very often I want to open files in the same directory. Still, I must pass their paths to vsplit/split.
:vsplit @/siblingfile.txt
@ is an alias ...
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How to set the vim path to your bash PATH?
I'd like my $PATH to be available to vim when running commands with !. How do I set vim's set path= to my environment variable $PATH?
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vim cannot access variable in autocmd
I am trying to configure prettier-eslint and prettier-standard as the js formatter with neoformat:
" neoformat should try formatprg where available
let g:neoformat_try_formatprg = 1
augroup vimrc
" ...
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Using :Rename from vim-eunuch with the current file name
The vim-eunuch plugin has a handy function :Rename which renames the current file without needing to pay attention to paths. This also means that if there ARE paths in the argument you are passing to ...
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How do I configure the path to match Python's site-package location?
I can get the site package location here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/122327/how-do-i-find-the-location-of-my-python-site-packages-directory
Has anyone written a script that copies the ...
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Automatically update import path if file is moved in Vim
Is there a way in which if you move file A to another location and there are other files that have imported file A, the import path will change accordingly in Vim?
PyCharm has this and I was ...
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syntastic not working on macvim, but works perfectly fine on the terminal
I have an issue where in MacVim, I don't get any syntastic/eslint related functionality. When I run !which eslint in macvim, I get "eslint not found" - eslint is definitely installed.
If I run !...
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The $path used by ":!start cmd" is different from my system $path in windows
So I do a lot of python work in GVim on Windows 7, and I'm running into an annoying roadblock. This might be more of a Windows question, but it's happening in Vim, so ...
I have this in my python.vim ...
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How can I set path of vim from the shell command result
I'd like to set c++ header file path automatically from .vimrc.
So I tried to write .vimrc file as shown below:
let g:gcpp_headers_path=system("g++ --version | grep g++ | awk '{print \"/usr/...
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User command with modified 'path' completion?
I'm trying to write a wrapper command around :edit or :find specifically to open either my vimrc or a subpath of ~/.vim/ (e.g. ~.vim/autoloads/foo.vim).
If I run the command with no arguments, it ...
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Is it possible to define the pwd for an external command runs in without changing VIM's pwd?
Im experiencing some problems running a command that reports paths based on the $PWD.
To correctly parse its output I need it to run from a different directory, however, I would rather not have to cd ...
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Detect Editing of Directory
How do you detect if a directory is opened(with :edit) in Vimscript? I am lazy loading a file explorer and need it to load it before I open a directory.
One approach I tried using an autocommand that ...
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Getting the path with a function key
I need to get the path and file name out of the open file. Wrinkle .. The file is FTP'd to my Desktop and I need the Linux path.
I found this on the web that prints the path file name
noremap <...
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Conflict between autocompletion (via ctags) and the `find` command?
I am using Vim 8.2 on Windows 10. Autocompletion (using CTRL+N or CTRL+P) upon creating the tags file using ctags.exe works fine for me.
Now I want to use the find command in vim to quickly opening ...
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Vim's "path" variable isn't changing or updating with modeline setting (finding header file in different directory)
I'm trying to do something relatively simple: Editing a file in src and pointing Vim to the header file located in include. My .vimrc file has set modeline on, and the first line in my file is: // vim:...
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Open file with path over 260 signs length in WIndows
Is there any way to open file with Gvim under Windows 10 from path over 260 signs length with out mapping the path to network drive?
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How to autocomplete path using alias root?
I'm working on frontend project, we're using root alias, like:
import from '~/src/components/button';
instead of:
import from '../../../../../components/button';
But when I try to import from ~/, my ...
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Ins-completion C-X C-F and the path variable [duplicate]
Can the insert-completion of file names CTRL+XCTRL+F can be used to complete filenames that are not in the current working directory ? But rather in any in the path variable ?
Can we, for example, ...
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Why is filetype not set after :find from autocmd?
Objective
I want vi file to act like :find file if file doesn't exist.
That is, I want to be able to edit a file by name, without giving a path to the file, from the command line:
mkdir -p a/b/c
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how to deduplicate packpath / runtimepath?
Problem:
I noticed that my "&packpath" has some duplicates, I want to remove them.
What I have tried:
My viml knowledge is not very strong but I did manage to create a unique "List&...
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How to compile vim for user only and use git to track it?
How can I compile vim for my user only so set source path to /home/user/ ?
And how can I track changes with git.
Basically I want to build and compile vim from source, and store it on my github repo....
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Enabling rubocop linter the right way
I've got a vim
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Sep 17 2020 21:54:53)
on ManjaroLinux (Arch + kde) and I'm using rvm to run my rubies.
The ruby I am using now is:
=> ruby-2.7.2 [ ...
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Adding directory (header and source) to autocompletition search
I use Ctrl+P and Ctrl-N for autocompletition, and since I have library sources in another directory, like
/opt/ST/STM32F4xx_DSP_StdPeriph_Lib_V1.8.0/Libraries/STM32F4xx_StdPeriph_Driver/inc
/opt/ST/...
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How to use variables in a user defined command? [duplicate]
I have this user defined command:
command! PS silent! w | PlugSnapshot! ~/.vim/plugins/plugins.lock
How could I change it to take the filepath from a variable, something like this:
let ...
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Error occurs while echoing system('echo %PATH%')
I'm currently using gvim 8.0 on Windows 10.
When I try to do the following command,
:echo system('echo %PATH%')
I get the following error.
E484: Can't open file C:/Users/BITS_A~1/AppData/Local/Temp/...
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How to remove paths starting with a certain pattern from a list of paths?
Say that I have the following list:
vim9script
g:my_paths = ['C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\envs\myenv',
'C:\Users\myname\Miniconda3\envs\myenv\python310.zip',
'C\Mypath',
'C\Anotherpath',
'C:\Users\...
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How do I add spaces to a file path in vimrc?
I am trying to set the shell to git bash in my vimrc.
I have this:
The code says:
set shell=C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe
But because there's a whitespace in Program Files, it acts as a separate ...
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How to split a string that is a full path, into its directories?
Say I have a string for the full path of a directory
let myPath = '/go/src/github.com/MyDomain/MyProject'
I would like to have an array like
['go', 'src', 'github.com', 'MyDomain', 'MyProject']
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Includeexpr + substitute not behaving as I would expect
I am using includeexpr and substitute() in a ftplugin to remove a portion of an include string for gf functionality (in twig template files, for the curious), but I get an error instead.
Twig ...
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Expanding variables in path
Background
I work a lot in the twig template language, and make use of path variables. For example, an include might look like
{% include "@my_path_var/my_folder/my-template.twig" %}
The @...
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Simple way to go to definitions
I use this simple approach to jump to definitions in C++, which works fine for me.
In my vimrc:
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.c,*.cpp,*.cc set path+=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/include/c++/...
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