Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally

Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally by wahnfrieden on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:48PM (#5571975)

Isn't there some way of using % to open a file relative to the current one perhaps? To get the best of both worlds.

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Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally by alphard on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:23PM (#5572174)

I'm using the following to expand "%%" in command mode to the full path of the current open file's directory:

  cabbr <expr> %% expand('%:p:h')

You could also use :. instead of :p to get the relative path, see :help c_% and :help filename_modifiers

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Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally by wahnfrieden on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:34PM (#5573261)

Wow, elegant. Thank you!

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Re:Vim Splits – Move Faster and More Naturally by micampe on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:31PM (#5573241)

I use:

    map <leader>e :e <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

you can make one that splits:

    map <leader>v :vs <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

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