Question

I want to execute a command automatically after cd’ing to a new directory from within vim. For example, I open gvim and run:

:cd ~/src/player

I would like vim at this point to automatically source a file that is in that directory.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can write an alias for that in your .vimrc:

command -nargs=1 Mycd call MyCd(<args>)
function MyCd(path)
  cd a:path
  e somefile.ext
endfunction

Then just type:

:Mycd /some/path/