Re: autochdir vs command-t

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> On Mon, September 17, 2012 08:40, shawn wilson wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Tony Mechelynck
>> <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 16/09/12 22:46, shawn wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Tony Mechelynck
>>>> <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16/09/12 20:08, shawn wilson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i like autochdir so that i can easily rename files and :E stuff where
>>>>>> i am. but, then if i use command-t again, it is limited to the
>>>>>> current
>>>>>> directory. how do i make the pwd of certain commands the path vim was
>>>>>> opened in and the pwd of another set of commands the pwd of the file
>>>>>> of the current buffer?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What about not using 'autochdir' but
>>>>>
>>>>> :lcd %:h
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> that's not a bad solution. is there a way of getting the directory
>>>> where i opened vim back? so, basically some way of toggling between
>>>> the path of the file and the path i opened vim in? i could map it to
>>>> an f-key and be fine with that...
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>> either (F5 to toggle)
>>>
>>> let <SID>curdir = getcwd()
>>> map <F5> :if getcwd() == <SID>curdir <Bar> lcd %:h <Bar> else
>>> <Bar>
>>> exe 'lcd' <SID>curdir <Bar> endif<CR>
>>>
>>
>> thanks for that. though, for some reason, it is erroring:
>>
>> Error detected while processing /home/swilson/.vimrc:
>> line 74:
>> E475: Invalid argument: <SID>curdir = getcwd()
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>
>> while i found this
>> (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/map.html#<SID>) i was unable to
>> figure out what the issue is.
>
> Replace the <SID> by g:
>

that works. thanks

if anyone comes googling later, this is what i ended up with:

let g:curdir = getcwd()
map <silent> <F5> :if getcwd() == g:curdir <Bar> lcd %:h <Bar> else
<Bar> exe 'lcd' g:curdir <Bar> endif<CR>

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