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I'm a mac user giving vim a serious try. Most of the GUI editors I'm used to allow me to open a directory as a "project" by executing a command like:
edit ~/www/example.com/
The vim equivalent vim ~/www/example.com/ will show me a list of files in the directory, and I can open them. But it does not set vim's working directory to that path, I have to run :cd . to set the working directory.
Is there some way, perhaps with a shell script, to open vim and have it's working directory set to a given path?
I'm actually using MacVim, if that makes any difference.
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Open a new or existing file with vim filename . Type i to switch into insert mode so that you can start editing the file. Enter or modify the text with your file. Once you're done, press the escape key Esc to get out of insert mode and back to command mode.
Using windows. Ctrl-W w to switch between open windows, and Ctrl-W h (or j or k or l ) to navigate through open windows. Ctrl-W c to close the current window, and Ctrl-W o to close all windows except the current one. Starting vim with a -o or -O flag opens each file in its own split.
Launching Vim In order to launch Vim, open a terminal, and type the command vim . You can also open a file by specifying a name: vim foo. txt .
Vim has an option for this. Here's the documentation: 'autochdir' 'acd' boolean (default off) global When on, Vim will change the current working directory whenever you open a file, switch buffers, delete a buffer or open/close a window. It will change to the directory containing the file which was opened or selected.
$ cd ~/my/working/directory $ vim . Thanks to @sehe's suggestions, I came up with this. Not sure if it's the best solution, but it seems to work.
#!/bin/bash if [ "$#" -eq 1 ];then # is there a path argument? if test -d $1;then # open directory in vim vim $1 +':cd %' else # open file in vim vim $1 +':cd %:h' fi else # no path argument, just open vim vim fi If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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