Re: Vim opened via a menu item

On 05/12/13 21:00, Ajabu Tex wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On linux mint 16, to open a file with vim in the terminal i wrote a nemo
> action that sends to the system the following command:
>
> gnome-terminal --working-directory=%P -e "vim %F"
>
> where %P is the insert path of parent (current) directory and %F is the
> insert path list of selection.
>
> The trick seems to work and the selected file is opened, but many lines
> in file are badly showed or not showed at all and CTRL-L doesn't work.
>
> Where can be the problem?
>

When I try to send this command at the bash prompt in konsole, a
gnome-terminal window opens with Vim inside it, but that Vim gets the
current directory (my $HOME) as working directory (as shown by :pwd)
instead of %P, and (with %F a bare file name, of a file which exists in
%P but not in $HOME) Vim opens an empty buffer of that name.

Without the -e switch and its argument, gnome-terminal opens at a bash
prompt, with %P as the current directory, as shown by the prompt. Then
typing the vim command, with the bare filename, at the bash prompt,
opens that file correctly.

:-? :-? :-? :-? :-?

Why don't you try to invoke gvim instead? You could use

gvim --cmd "cd %P" -c "e %F"

to start gvim with %P as the current directory (set before reading the
vimrc) and %F (relative to %P) as the current editfile (opened after
reading the vimrc). With a bare filename not part of a -c parameter, I
see gvim opening with the correct pwd but with a file %F relative to the
_original_ directory from which it was invoked. Maybe that's what you
want after all: in that case the command is

gvim --cmd "cd %P" %F


Best regards,
Tony.
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