From 08cab9608781c975b4acbad875862b842b29258d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bram Moolenaar Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:37:18 +0100 Subject: patch 8.0.0405: v:progpath may become invalid after :cd Problem: v:progpath may become invalid after ":cd". Solution: Turn v:progpath into a full path if needed. --- runtime/doc/eval.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'runtime') diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 272c5ea1f8..49c955da47 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -1789,8 +1789,11 @@ v:progpath Contains the command with which Vim was invoked, including the |--remote-expr|. To get the full path use: > echo exepath(v:progpath) -< NOTE: This does not work when the command is a relative path - and the current directory has changed. +< If the path is relative it will be expanded to the full path, + so that it still works after `:cd`. Thus starting "./vim" + results in "/home/user/path/to/vim/src/vim". + On MS-Windows the executable may be called "vim.exe", but the + ".exe" is not added to v:progpath. Read-only. *v:register* *register-variable* -- cgit v1.2.3