Friday, June 3, 2011

Re: reading contents from a file under directories specified by "path" variable

I know that it works for ":find", as already mentioned in my question;
I am mainly interested in a way by which I get the same behavior for
":r"

--Thanks

On Jun 3, 3:54 pm, Ryan Aviles <ryan.avi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I do :find <filename_without_dir>
> It opens the file even if its outside my current working directory. No need
> for the ":r"
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> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Aman Jain <amanjain.nit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
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> > I know vim supports searching for files in those directories
> > which are specified by the path variable.
> > e.g.
> > :se path=/path/to/dir1,/path/to/dir2
> > :find file_inside_dir1.txt
> > (For this find command, auto complete works fine.)
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> > But is there a way for reading in the contents of files present under
> > directories,
> > specified by path variable e.g.
> > :r file_inside_dir<TAB>
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> > P.S: Right now I have to specify full path to read contents of a file,
> > which at some times is not that efficient.
> >        i.e :r /path/to/dir1/file_inside_dir1
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> > Thanks
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