Re: findfile() behaviour difference to finddir() - no path information

On 24/06/2010 1:06 PM, Erik Falor wrote:

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:49:26AM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:   

 VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jun 22 2010 14:52:33) MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support Included patches: 1-444  When I issue a finddir(), I get an absolute path back to the location of my file (in my particular case).  When I issue a findfile(), I get just the file, which is kind of useless since I want to edit the file.  This only tells me it found it, not where it found it.  Looking at :h finddir()          Returns the path of the first found match.  When the found         directory is below the current directory a relative path is         returned.  Otherwise a full path is returned.   :h findfile()         Just like |finddir()|, but find a file instead of a directory.  So I should be receiving either a relative path name or a fullpath. Given the finddir() returned the fullpath in this case, findfile() should also. In my case, I received just the filename even though the file was several directories deep from the initial path to search from. finddir() did the "right thing".   ...

I followed these steps, and did not reproduce your Vim's behavior:  1. Create file ~/test/b/bb/bbb/b.file 2. `vim -u NONE -c 'chdir ~/test'` 3. :echo findfile('b.file', './**')    Results in 'b/bb/bbb/b.file' 4. :echo finddir('bbb', './**')    Results in 'b/bb/bbb'   

In this case, I was several levels deep but this file was also within the same directory.  So what was returned was a relative filename.

I have written my own function for includeexpr, and since a file without a path was returned it failed to open it.  So now I detect this case and add the current local directory.

Thanks,
Dave