vim setting a default folder to store all txt files, how?

Question

I want to set it so that when I write a text file and save it - it is saved to a default folder called TEXT which will be in my main Vim folder eg. C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73\TEXT

at the moment they are saved by default in the vim73 folder mixed in with everything else. so if I type :W^M the file gets saved there and I want it to go to the folder named TEXT

Answer 1

When you save a file vim will default it to your current working directory. You can use the command :pwd to verify this. To change it you can use :cd SomeDirectoryPath.

You could also add the cd command to your .vimrc (or the equivalent for windows) to automatically change your current directory every time you start vim.

Answer 2

Another possible approach would be to intercept the writing process with an autocmd for a writing event, probably BufWriteCmd. Have the autocmd function check to see if the file has a .txt extension (or whatever you use) and bypass the normal write process to save however/wherever you want. For docs see:

:h BufWriteCmd

Here's some code you could put in vimrc, not thoroughly tested to make sure behavior is exactly what you'd want, but it does basically work:

function! WriteTextFile()
    execute 'write! c:\text\'.expand("%:p:t")
    set nomodified
endfunction
au BufWriteCmd *.txt call WriteTextFile()