Question

I’m trying to add an autocmd to vim that will execute whenever I open a file in a certain subdirectory and that sets the search path. Unfortunately path name expansion doesn’t seem to work inside a set command.

Specifically I’d like to have a line like this in my vimrc:

setlocal path+=**;%:p:h

But this will just give me the literal value. Just calling expand() doesn’t work either. Is there a way to get variable expansion to work here?

Answer 1

What about:

execute 'setlocal path +=**;' . fnameescape(expand('%:p:h'))