Questions tagged [working-directory]
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Wrong working directory after opening file
I currently have the problem that when I open a file, I always have a certain working directory. This is a problem, because Vim doesn't find tags files anymore. I have not set anything like this in ....
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Set current working directory when opening vim
When opening neovim via nvim /path/to/directory I want the current working directory of vim to be set to the given path instead of the current path of my terminal.
When opening a file instead it would ...
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How to make vim recognize variables from files in the current directory or sub directories?
I have recently been working on a web project and I would like my css files to recognize the classes and ids from the html files. Is there any way to make this work?
Edit:
So I use coc.nvim. By ...
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Is there a way to quickly navigate to previously visited directories
I quickly want to switch between directories I previously visited without typing :cd and then the full pathname again and again. Is there a plugin or a way that can keep an account of the directories ...
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Why is current working directory in vim different from where vim was started?
vim is showing a different current working directory than the one I started vim with from the command-line. The problem goes away if I run without my .vimrc (vim -u NONE). How can I debug this to ...
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How to change the root directory of vim?
My vim is installed in D:\Vim\vim82, but somehow $VIM points to the directory D:\Vim\vim82\vim.exe\vim82.
Therefore when I startup vim all the features that need to access folders in the root ...
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VimWiki linking to files in other directories with special characters
With vimwiki we can create a link to another file, [[DelmeDirectory/delme.md|File]]. I have some directories which have the form Notes_0-0-0 and aren't recognized. i.e. pressing Enter with the cursor ...
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Is there a way to revert :lcd to the "global" path?
For most my projects I prefer my directory to be at a particular project root.
However for some (mostly vimwiki) it's easier to have vim change the folder to the file location.
This is easily done ...
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switch current directory between a base directory and current file directory
Goal:
To achieve filename/path completion relative to current file directory using file name completion CTRL-X CTRL-F.
I open all my files contained in a base directory such that :pwd in some_file ...
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Vundle keeps installing plugins to C:\Users\<user name> despite being told not to in .vimrc
I am using Vim on Windows. My installation directory is C:\Program Files\Vim\vim82. As I am trying to use Vundle, I installed it in .\plugin\Vundle.vim. Then, I added these to .vimrc:
set ...
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How to use FZF to search directories and open new file in directory
Here's what I'd like to do, and I'm open to using any tool (not just fzf):
I want to be able to open a new file quickly (with a horizontal split :sp) in a specific directory that I find using fzf. Say ...
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How to do :Sex but with a vertical split?
When viewing a file /tmp/vim_split_demo/test.txt, the parent directory can be opened in a horizontal split screen using the command :Sex, as shown in these screenshots:
What command gives same ...
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How to have getcwd() give path with ~ in place of home folder?
I have the following (simplified) statusline config in my vimrc:
set laststatus=2
set statusline=
set statusline+=%{getcwd()}
When I'm somewhere in my home directory on macOS, my statusline looks ...
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How to handle multiple directories in vim?
I always have at least two directories in my projects:
One with information about the projects: info.txt, log.txt
One with code
And every project has a name.
How to group and jump efficiently ...
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Exclude folder when searching files in working directory
I'm working in a react project and opened vim from the root folder. When I'm using
:vimgrep /pattern/ **
I just can search everywhere, but I want to search everywhere except the 'node_modules' ...
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`:bro w` initially opens wrong directory in 8.1.1
I just upgraded Vim to 8.1.1, and the behavior of :bro w seems changed: it occasionally (!?) does not open the pwd for browsing. (I checked :pwd.) This in on Win 10. Does something other than the ...
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How to tell command-t to ignore a specific directory
I have a very large number of files under a specific directory.
If I start vim from the wrong place, command-t tries to index the whole thing, which results in vim hanging for a long time before ...
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How do you go back to your to global current directory after inheriting an lcd
I frequently have one root project open which I've :cd'd to. I also have other tabs with :lcd's set. This is great and works really nicely, but occasionally I end up looking at something in the main ...
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Difference between 1 CTRL-G and :pwd, quotation marks?
The commands 1 CTRL-G and :pwd return related but different results:
1 CTRL-G "~/dev/src/tiff.c" 170 lines --15%--
:pwd /home/user/src
Of course, CTRL-G returns the file, not the working ...
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How to run internal vim terminal at current file's dir?
I edit file /home/me/projects/myproj/src/util.c And want to start terminal at /home/me/projects/myproj/src. Vim version > 8 so I can run :terminal but it always starts at folder in which I've opened ...
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Working directory different than current file directory?
I saw something strange happen today.
I was in directory /some/path/ and opened a file with vim file.html.
I then did :pwd in vim and it gave me /some/other/path. What could cause this to happen?
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chdir doesn't work
I'm in the browsing directory mode how can I change the current directory to that one I'm browsing? At least manually. But ":chdir ." doesn't work
Moreover, in the config file I have "set autochdir" ...
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VimScript - How do you get file/directory vim was called on from the command line?
I am writing a little hack for vim session that will save and load sessions more conveniently - I am aiming for more project-style sessions.
When you are in directory my-proj and call vim, it should ...
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Do not change current directory
I want to have fixed current directory equals to the directory where vim was opened.
Note I am using tabs and splits, so I want to have the same current directory in all tabs and splits. How can I do ...
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How can I set the working directory for only the job_start() process?
I would like to set the working directory for the process started with job_start().
The only way I know how to do this is to change Vim's current working directory before calling job_start(), and ...
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opening another file with path relative to current directory
I want to open another file in the same directory or any file with its path relative to the current directory in command line.
My path is /home/sibich/
/home/sibich> vim a.pl
In vim, I want ...
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Highlight current line, but not for files inside certain dirs
I'd like to be able to highlight the current line the cursor is at, but not for files from certain directories. That's because I noticed the rendering becomes slow if I highlight the lines within a ...
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Edit a directory inside Vim
Is it possible to edit a directory inside Vim? (Some commands are working for directories).
I want to know what kind of operations can be done in a directory inside Vim. Vim can open the directories ...
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autochdir working with :sp but not :e?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64) and vim 7.4. In my config file, I have:
set autochdir
And this was working for as long as I remember. Just after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, I see the following behavior (...
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After changing lcd get parent directory of original file
Is is possible to get the original working directory of vim after changing the local working directory?
Let's say I open vim with parent directory:
~/projects/myproject
and then I open a file and ...
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CtrlP should never index particular directories
My projects are in:
/home/user/projectA
/home/user/projectB
However, at times I hit CtrlP and I haven't opened a file in a particular project, so my working directory is /home/user. CtrlP starts ...
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How to change the directory to save a file
Currently all I have to do is type vim file_name and it will make that file in the current directory (usually user because that is where the command line start at if you don't use the cd command). It ...
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change working directory to current opened file [duplicate]
Sometimes I use Command-T to browse files. When I find the file I needed, I would like to switch the current working directory to the opened file's directory. How can I do this?
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Execute current file outside of working directory
I know I can execute the current file, lets say a bash file, with :! bash %.
But what can I do if I want to execute the current file in a different directory (such as the location of the current file) ...
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How to set up NERDTree to CD to current folder when opening it for the first time via :NERDTreeFind
Given:
$ cd ~/Sites/project
project $ vim
:NERDTreeFind
I would like to see NERDTree opening with ~/Sites/project as a root folder.
Instead I see ~/Sites with project folder selected. So I have to ...
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Can't change directory to network drive
Our company has recently changed to networked home directories. This includes setting enviroment variables.
This has created the odd situation that gvim thinks my home directory is :
:echo $HOME
H:\...
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Switching to the local directory after loading a file?
When running gvim by double clicking with a file in a graphical file manager, like nautilus, the vim instance is called with a strange current directory (seems root sometime, but I am not sure). This ...
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Make :edit {file} use current directory during :Explore
I often use :Ex or :Sex to explore the filesystem from an opened file directory, or just invoke vim passing a directory to start exploring the filesystem and then opening a file.
In any case, while ...
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