Re: Buffer name changed after :edit command

On 09/16/2012 07:34 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 16/09/12 15:18, Timothy Madden wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> In some situation if I try to edit a file like with
>> :edit plugin/script.vim
>> I may end up with a buffer name like '../.vim/plugin/script.vim'
>>
>> Note though two paths are equivalent, assuming the current directory is
>> named ".vim", still the buffer names are not the same in a literal sense.
>>
>> This will happen when I already have the file opened (or listed) with
>> the long name (../.vim/plugin/script.vim), then I try to :edit it in a
>> different window with the short name.
>>
>> In my script I would like to use :MkVimball command plugin from the
>> standard vimball plugin, and if I ran into this problem than MkVimball
>> will create for example a file like ../../src/vim/plugin/scriptname.vim
>> in the vimball archive. Even if the filename I pass to MkVimball really
>> is the right one, plugin/scriptname.vim.
>>
>> For this to trigger, the MkVimball command should be seen from within a
>> :source'd script, and not directly from the command line. Anyway, I
>> think this should not happen (actually, I find this a bug in the
>> standard vimballPlugin, but that is another problem).
>>
>> Is there a way to know if a file is already loaded/listed in a buffer,
>> with a modified path name like ../dir/script.vim instead of script.vim ?
>>
>> Are there other cases where such a different path name may exist ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Timothy Madden
>>
>
> Vim identifies files by their full path, but displays them (e.g. on the
> statusline) by a shorter path if possible. If you have several windows
> on a single buffer, but with different "local current directories", it
> may happen that Vim can shorten the name in one window but not in the
> other. However it should display all statuslines relative to what is the
> current directory now: if you change windows, and the LCDs are
> different, statuslines may change.

I have the same file, the same directory, two windows with no local
directory, and the same file name in both (in other words, one buffer
with two windows).

The problem is the file name is ../.vim/plugin/script.vim, and I want to
open plugin/script.vim

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

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