Re: How to keep the full path of the search result in quickfix window?

This is annoying. There will be more coding to avoid this problem.
Hopefully, there will be an option letting user making decision in
future.

On the window, vim uses findstr even though you type grep command.

Thanks

Frank

On Apr 6, 12:05 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 1:56 pm, "yixiaodaf...@gmail.com" <yixiaodaf...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I am using the findstr /f:file.txt /n pattern in my script to search
> > the pattern. After the system the search results
> > have the full path of the file name. However, after dump the result to
> > quickfix window, some of the files are only displayed as relative
> > path. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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> > Here is the command that I am using:
> >     let files = 'c:\cscope.files'
> >     let scmd = 'findstr /f:'.files . ' /n ' . a:pattern
> >     let search_result = system(scmd)
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> >     exe "redir! > " . tmpfile
> >     silent echon search_result
> >     redir END
> >     exe "silent! cgetfile " . tmpfile
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> I'm wondering if you considered using the :grep command within Vim,
> which on Windows is already set up to do a findstr search by default.
> It may save you some scripting headaches.
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> > When I debug the code and echo the search_result, it contains the full
> > path of the results. However, in the quickfix, some files are only
> > displayed without the complete path.
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> I think the quickfix list tries to make every path relative to the
> current working directory. If you don't have autochdir set, and
> you :cd to some directory containing none of your files (or the root
> directory of whatever drive you are on will probably work), then the
> quickfix list should show full paths.
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> I'm not sure if there are other ways to accomplish this or not.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

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