Re: findfile() does not work with sshfs?

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, zergu wrote:

> Hello.
> Recently I've written my first Vim plugin which allows me to jump to
> most used files/directories in Symfony (PHP) projects. It works as
> expected in all of them but one. I have a project which is mounted to
> my local directory via sshfs (don't ask why ;)).

Seems reasonable. That's why sshfs exists.

> Plugin detects Symfony's main dir by finding 'symfony' file:
> let l:maindir = findfile("symfony", ".*;")
> And this is not working in this particular project. It seems that no
> file can be found with findfile() when mounted with sshfs, cause in
> normal situation
> echo findfile("symfony", ".")
> returns "symfony" and in sshfs one returns nothing. Is this a bug or I
> am doing something wrong?

This works for me. I have /mnt/work mounted via sshfs to my work
machine's root directory. So, e.g. /mnt/work/etc/shadow is a file that
exists. If I do:

:cd /mnt/work
:echo findfile('shadow','.*;')

It echoes 'etc/shadow'

The '.*;' means to start at all directories matching /.*/, but then also
consider all parent directories, up to root. See:

:help file-searching | /Upward

The results of findfile() when the {path} portion contains a relative
path (e.g. /.*/), depend on your current directory in Vim (Try :lcd).
Try for example to change into the root directory of the project (or
into the directory of some file in the project) and test it again, e.g.:

:cd %:h
:echo findfile('symfony', '.*;')

The version you're using for testing:
:echo findfile('symfony', '.')
will only find a 'symfony' file in the current directory (not in a
subdirectory of the current).

--
Best,
Ben

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