When opening a file from dolphin gvim doesn't take over the correct path info

[benzimmer]

Binary package hint: vim-gnome

Scenario:

This is happening on Intrepid (8.10) amd64

vim-gnome package version: 1:7.1.314-3ubuntu3
dolphin package version: 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu4

- Mapped the file-association of .tex files to gvim
- Opening a .tex file from dolphin (or konqueror)
- Trying to use some features from vim-latexsuite (e.g.: :call Tex_ViewLatex() for viewing the compiled document in an external viewer)
-> commands have no effect, because gvim thinks its still located at the standard path (/home/user) which can be confirmed by running '!ls' from the vim-command-line.

Problem doesn't exist when I run gvim from the command-line. '!ls' then shows the path where the edited document is located and gvim/latex-suite works as expected.

Don't know if its really a gvim issue or more a dolphin/konqueror/kde issue...

[Nicolas Bonnefon (nickbnf)]

hmm... seems like expected behaviour to me. gvim's 'current directory' is the directory where it is run from, not the directory of the file edited. e.g. if you run "gvim ~/myfolder/myfile.tex" from your home dir, vim's current dir will be your home, not ~/myfolder.
From within gvim, you can use :pwd to display the current directory, and :cd ~/myfolder to change it.

A possible solution to your problem is too add this to your .vimrc:
autocmd BufRead * cd %:p:h
It will automatically change the current directory to the one of the file read when you open a file (it can be a bit irritating because it does it for all files, including helpfiles...) so you can use that if you prefer:
autocmd BufRead *.tex cd %:p:h

[Radek (radek-42)]

Hi,

I do not know what is going on, but it surly sounds strange. I can confirm, that \lv command works if gvim is started from the terminal either by
gvim test.tex
or
gvim Documents/test.tex

Therefore it does not appear to be a problem with working directory.

On the other hand if one starts editing *.tex file from file manager (thunar in my case) it does not work. I also tried to set up starting directory for thunar to be ~/Documents where my *.tex (and *.pdf) files are and it still does not work.

It gets kind of annoying after a while :-)

Ideas?

PS. I also notice that from time to time \lv switches into "visual" mode rather that executing viewing command. Any idea why?