Question

Trying to run gvim 7.3 from the working directory (project location) seems impossible– it defaults to the home directory which breaks my code browsing and pythoncomplete setup.

I’ve tried three approaches. First, calling gvim from the working directory:

cd /some/dir && gvim

Second, specifying a ‘cd’ command for gvim to execute

gvim -c 'cd /some/dir'

Third, telling it to open a particular file in that directory

gvim /some/dir/file.txt

In all cases, when i’m in gvim and type ‘:cd’ to see the current directory what I get is my $HOME directory. Vim, on the ether hand, starts up at the working directory.

Does anyone know if there’s a way around the problem or the reasoning behind this?

Answer 1

cd behaves differently in Windows and Unix system

• On non-Unix systems: Print the current directory name.
• On Unix systems: Change the current directory to the home directory.
• Use :pwd to print the current directory on all systems.