Re: Gvim starting up in C:\temp??

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:48:20 PM UTC-5, Linda W wrote:
> Ben Fritz wrote:
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> > > I've never seen that problem, and I use shellslash in my config.
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> > > Does it work with launching Vim as follows?
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> > > gvim -N -u NONE -U NONE -i NONE --cmd "set shellslash" fb17X/content/firebug/chrome.js
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> > > I know that the 'shellslash' option can make shellescape() do bad things on Windows, and it makes paths copied from Vim or passed to shell commands sometimes fail, but I don't know of any other ill effects.
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> Why would -N ever be needed when typing 'gvim'?
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Because if you're using -u NONE, then Vim will by default start with 'compatible' set, which is normally not what you want. If you have any .vimrc at all, Vim starts with 'nocompatible' so I assumed you were using 'nocompatible' mode. Vim with 'compatible' set tries to act as much like plain posix vi as possible, meaning that it intentionally tries NOT to be improved.

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> -u NONE says to ignore my .vimrc
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> but --cmd "set shellslash" says to execute that command before
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> any .vimrc or .gvimrc.
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Also, although this may not be explicit, before the file is read into Vim. -c may do the same thing in this situation but I'm not sure without consulting the help and/or experimenting.

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> I made sure it was first in my .vimrc, since there was a
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> set "set autochdir" about 3 lines in that could trigger a
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> chdir I'd guess.
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Sure, but I was trying to get you to figure out whether Vim had a problem for everyone or just you. Since the behavior went away with that command it's just your config, so probably a patch to Vim isn't needed, we just need to find the problem in your config. Possibly there is an option acting in unexpected ways.

I do wonder whether autochdir works with shellslash in weird ways in this situation. But I actually have both set too, and haven't noticed your problem when using my config.

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> So if shellslash was set first, ..
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> Now I get... Ah ha... I figured out where it is executing
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> I mistyped iotest as iotset and it came up
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> saying there was a swap file C:\tmp/iotest
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> Why is it in C:\tmp? (when I started in my home dir/profiledir).

I'm not sure how Vim determines its current working directory when not using autochdir and using relative paths. I do know that it will start in the directory of a file when you pass in the full path to that file, on Windows anyway. Normally when I start Vim with no arguments it starts in the installation directory.

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