Re: Make :saveas save to path of current file

I think Google mail just sent an empty reply from me as well, sorry
for spam there.

On Aug 19, 12:53 am, Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au>
wrote:
> On 19/08/11 8:23 AM, John Beckett wrote:
>
> > What you want is something like this:
> > :saveas %:p:h/newname.txt
>
> Alternatively, you could use one of the many tricks to ensure the
> current directory matches the directory of the file in the current
> buffer. If you search the Vim tips wiki, I'm sure you'll find a few ways
> to do that if you're interested.
>
> Ben.

Thanks for your answers, although I hoped I'd covered them both in my
original
email to save people suggesting them :) It's useful to know they're
the
methods people recommend.

A recent unrelated thread showed me what's obviously a more correct
way to
redefine :saveas than my attempts, i.e. remapping :sav to call my
custom
command. I can't account for not spotting that before (especially
since I
was already mapping F7 to call it ): Anyway, now I have

"All on one line
command! -nargs=1 SaveasSamePath exe "sav " . expand("%:p:h") . "/" .
expand("<args>")

"Remap so I get my command
nnoremap :sav :SaveasSamePath

"... and so I can still get the original if I need it by typing it in
full
nnoremap :saveas :saveas

Hopefully this won't cause problems even for plugins that assume no
mappings
and issue the command ":sav" themselves. I haven't been able to make
it
go wrong myself in defined commands (defining more execute commands to
call "sav"
works as expected and calls :saveas).

The original reason I didn't want to change the working directory
whenever I
switch to a buffer was because 'autochdir' seemed to cause problems,
and also,
the help makes it sound (to me) like a very non-standard option. That
was a
couple of years ago when I looked at this. (This saveas problem
doesn't trip
me up very often, which is why I can't just remember %:p:h) I did
more
recently find

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Set_working_directory_to_the_current_file

and my impression was the methods of doing this still might cause
problems in
some situations; since I don't particularly want to change directory
apart from
to solve my saveas problem, it seemed better to avoid doing so. But,
if this
remapping doesn't work out I'll probably look at it again.

regards,
Geoff

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