Thursday, November 10, 2016

Re: print full file name

Hi Kamaraju,

2016-11-11(Fri) 13:21:46 UTC+9 kamaraju kusumanchi:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:06 AM, JohnBeckett wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 4:28:05 PM UTC+11, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> >> When I do <CTRL-g>, vim prints the filename as "foo" . Is it possible
> >> to print the full path of the file (ex:- /home/user/foo ) instead?
> >
> > Press 1 then Ctrl-g. It shows the user home directory as "~", but apart from that, it shows the full path.
> >
>
> Thanks. Ideally, I want the '~' to be expanded as well. But if that is
> the best we can do, I will take it. I can do it by using external
> programs such as
>
> :!realpath %
>
> But was hoping if it can be done with pure vim.

How about this one?

:echo expand("%:p")

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