Re: [Solved] using "gf" or "^Wf" with symlinked files

On 2018-11-05 10:02, Tim Chase wrote:
> $ mkdir a b
> $ cd a
> $ echo hello > included.txt
> $ echo include included.txt > including.txt
> $ cd ../b
> $ ln -s ../a/including.txt include_in_b.txt
> $ vim include_in_b.txt

I think I've found a workable solution:

:set includeexpr=fnamemodify(resolve(@%),':p:h').'/'.v:fname


The trick was learning about three new (to me) things:

1) resolve() chases links as I needed

2) fnamemodify() is the generic way to transform what I'd previously
done only in expand() calls (e.g. "expand('%:p:h')")

3) 'includeexpr' and its "v:fname" are the trigger/glue holding the
whole thing together

So, despite using vim for about two decades, I'm still learning new
tricks.

Hopefully someone else finds this helpful too.

-tim



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