Sunday, February 27, 2011

Re: Incorrect working directory in gvim launched from Konqueror

Hi,

Jean Johner wrote:
> Hello,
> Suppose the .f extension has been allocated to gvim.
>
> In Windows, double clicking on the "file1.f" file sitting in the
> "test_vim" directory results in opening file1.f with test_vim as
> working directory (for example using the file/open menu lists files in
> test_vim).

that's the intended behaviour -- see :help win32-startup.

> Doing the same in KDE 3.5 Konqueror file manager opens file1.f but the
> working directory is always the user's home directory.
>
> Does anybody know a way to solve this problem.

(The following is untested.) Put

au VimEnter * if expand('%') != '' | cd %:h | endif

in your ~/.vimrc.

Regards,
Jürgen

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