Re: where are those %F, %y, %f......

On 30/06/12 15:39, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 28/06/12 15:37, Charles Campbell wrote:
>> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>> On 27/06/12 16:55, Charles Campbell wrote:
>>>> Bee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2:51 pm, andy richer<andy.ric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Tony Mechelynck<
>>>>>>
>>>>>> antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 'titlestring' is a 'statusline'-like option. If you want a specific
>>>>>>> (nondefaut) title, you set it. For instance, having
>>>>>>> if has('title')
>>>>>>> set title titlestring=%F%y%m%r
>>>>>>> endif
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> Tony.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> I tried to use :help %F, %y,... to find the definition above with no
>>>>>>> luck.
>>>>>> And by experiment I see %F shows ~/c/d/e.v, %f shows ./c/d/e.v
>>>>>> if I
>>>>>> opened e.v inside a utility called SOS.
>>>>>> 1.
>>>>>> Would anyone please advise me where can I find all those %x
>>>>>> definition in
>>>>>> gvim?
>>>>>> 2.
>>>>>> I modified above example to: set title titlestring=%{$PWD}/%f and it
>>>>>> works in titlebar.
>>>>>> The thing is that it shows "/a/b/c/d/e.v" where e.v is the file
>>>>>> name.
>>>>>> How can I show "e.v /a/b/c/d" in titlebar?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Andy
>>>>> :help titlestring
>>>>> When this option contains printf-style '%' items,
>>>>> they will be expanded according to the rules used for 'statusline'.
>>>>>
>>>>> :help statusline
>>>>>
>>>> Additionally, when one is perplexed about finding help for something in
>>>> Vim's help pages, use helpgrep. Applied to your question:
>>>>
>>>> :helpgrep %F
>>>> :cope
>>>>
>>>> would've pointed you in the right direction.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chip Campbell
>>>>
>>> In this case, the only uses of %F in the help are in an example under
>>> 'titlestring' and in a TODO item.
>>>
>>> Bee's reply, and the line where I said earlier that 'titlestring' is a
>>> 'statusline'-like option, should have pointed Andy the help for
>>> 'statusline', where it is explained first that there can be
>>> printf-style % items in the value of that option, and lower down
>>> (about one page down with my 'guifont' in a maximized gvim) there is a
>>> list of possible items. For %F, the relevant line is:
>>>
>>> F S Full path to the file in the buffer.
>>>
>>> and its meaning is explained in the help text that comes above it.
>> Tony -- have you heard the phrase, "Give a man a fish and you feed him
>> for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"?
>>
>> I was attempting to "teach the man to fish".
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chip Campbell
>>
>
> Aha. And what do you do when no fish bites on the kind of fishline you
> taught him to use?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

P.S. I was also trying to "teach him to fish", namely, by paying
attention to what he's been told. Let's hope he will, in the future.


Best regards,
Tony.
--
"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten."
-- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and
Over and Over"

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