autochdir

[Sean Hubbell]

Hello,

  A long time ago I had something set up in my .vimrc file to change the
working directory to the location of the file I was editing. Since this
was in the mid 90's I cannot remember so may be this functionality is
obsolete now but when I was going through the help I found autochdir but
this does not work for me. Does anyone have this working for them?

Thanks,

Sean

[Jürgen Krämer]

Hi,

Sean Hubbell wrote:
>
>   A long time ago I had something set up in my .vimrc file to change the
> working directory to the location of the file I was editing. Since this
> was in the mid 90's I cannot remember so may be this functionality is
> obsolete now but when I was going through the help I found autochdir but
> this does not work for me. Does anyone have this working for them?

  :help 'autochdir'

tells

                        {only available when compiled with the
                        |+netbeans_intg| or |+sun_workshop| feature}

But you can simulate this option with something like

  :autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile * cd %:p:h
  :autocmd BufEnter           * cd %:p:h
  ...

(You might want to use lcd instead of cd.)

Regards,
J?rgen

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[Sean Hubbell]

J?rgen Kr?mer wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Sean Hubbell wrote:
>  
>
>>  A long time ago I had something set up in my .vimrc file to change the
>>working directory to the location of the file I was editing. Since this
>>was in the mid 90's I cannot remember so may be this functionality is
>>obsolete now but when I was going through the help I found autochdir but
>>this does not work for me. Does anyone have this working for them?
>>    
>>
>
>  :help 'autochdir'
>
>tells
>
> {only available when compiled with the
> |+netbeans_intg| or |+sun_workshop| feature}
>
>But you can simulate this option with something like
>
>  :autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile * cd %:p:h
>  :autocmd BufEnter           * cd %:p:h
>  ...
>
>(You might want to use lcd instead of cd.)
>
>Regards,
>J?rgen
>
>  
>

Thanks, I will check it out.

Do I need to add in when I save/write this file as well?

Sean