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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: starting an app in the current directory
From:       Jerome Yuzyk <jerome () supernet ! ab ! ca>
Date:       2001-12-16 7:44:19
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On Saturday 15 December 2001 05:03 pm, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 15 December 2001 21:21, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Friday 14 December 2001 04:13 am, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 December 2001 01:15, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > I have associated VIM (gvim?) with *.txt. I like to use KFM to
> > > > open files with middle-click. How do I tell VIM to open the file
> > > > and stay in the directory the file came from? VIM always opens the
> > > > file from $HOME.
> > >
> > > See my recent reply about the inexisting notion of "current dir" in
> > > a graphical environment (I guess it was on kde-devel).
> >
> > I would argue there is a "current dir": the place where the file came
> > from, the folder I was looking at when I opened the file.
>
> There isn't always a file to open. What's the current dir if you open
> an application from the K menu ?

Should be ~/

> What if you open an application with 3 files as parameter, all from
> different dirs (ok, that's a bit hard to do from a GUI, although
> Konqueror's treeview allows to do that).
>
> > > Solution is simple, change the Exec line to
> > > sh -c "cd %d ; vim %f"
> >
> > I tried this in the Menu Editor with gvim but %d and %f don't get
> > through.
>
> Err, that's a bit vague. Did the .desktop file get modified ?
> (see ~/.kde/share/applnk/*/gvim.desktop or vim.desktop)
> What happens exactly ?

From the K menu gvim tries to open the file "~/%f"
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