> A couple months ago, I was wandering around the help pages looking for
> something (no idea what now) and I stumbled upon something SOOO cool,
> that I really had wished I had known it for the last ten years.
>
> I, then, promptly forgot what it was (the exact command, not the
> functionality) and have not been able to re-find it to save my life!!
>
> It was (I think) some : thingy, that upon hitting enter a command/cmd/
> DOS window (I'm running gvim in XP) would pop open, already sitting in
> the directory in which the file open in the current buffer resides.
> In other words, if I had a file open like: c:/somedir/someotherdir/
> somefile.ext and I typed the :magic-word and hit enter, a command
> window would pop open to the directory: c:/somedir/someotherdir/
>
> Might anyone know the :magic-word?
>
>
Assuming that you have (at least)
set nocp
filetype plugin on
in your .vimrc, then all you need do is to "edit" a directory:
:e .
would do, for example. You can also "edit" remote directories:
:e ftp://somesite/path/
:e scp://somesite/path/
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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