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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: starting an app in the current directory
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-19 2:25:47
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It should now (With todays KDE CVS) be possible to just use:
	Exec=cd %d;vim %f

Cheers,
Waldo

On Sunday 16 December 2001 04:21 am, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 16 December 2001 08:44, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > > 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"
>
> Ouch. Indeed. That's a bug in klauncher.
> Waldo: klauncher's  KLauncher::createArgs() assumes that %f and other
> %blah parameters are whole arguments (e.g. in "vim %f", %f is an
> argument in itself).
> This breaks with command lines such as sh -c "cd %d ; vim %f"
> The "parser" in createArgs rightfully notices 3 arguments, the third one
> being "cd %d ; vim %f", but then no substitution happens in there.
> Can KLauncher use the search-n-replace code from KRun, on each
> argument, instead of looking for specific arguments like %f ?

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