Topic: Changing Current Directory (1 of 3), Read 59 times
Conf: Wildfile, Other macros
From: Clint Danbury
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 05:52 PM

I tried to do a wildfile search.

The Current Subdirectory was not ok with me. Hey hey, there once was a
way to change this, but,,,,

Today I didn't find it among the drop-down menus. I was certain that I
had done this before; and it was in one of the drop-down menus. Not so
no mo, Joe. (Or hey, maybe I'm just getting older as my age increases)

Anyway, Duh.

 


Topic: Changing Current Directory (2 of 3), Read 63 times
Conf: Wildfile, Other macros
From: Scott Lambert
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:17 AM

On 10/13/1999 5:52:24 PM, Clint Danbury wrote:
>I tried to do a wildfile
>search.
>
>The Current Subdirectory was
>not ok with me. Hey hey, there
>once was a
>way to change this, but,,,,
>
>Today I didn't find it among
>the drop-down menus.

In wildfile, just type in the full path when asked for filespec, then you don't need to change directories.

Outside of wildfile, there is nothing in the menu to change directories, so you must drop to command mode and type :

chdir("c:\directory")

replacing c:\directory with the path you want to change to.

However, don't do this if the current buffer has a file in it, because it won't take effect until the file is closed, so switch to an empty buffer first.

There are several macros floating around to make all this easier.

"Age is all in the mind, because it is the first thing to go"

Regards,

Scott

 


Topic: Re: Changing Current Directory (3 of 3), Read 72 times
Conf: Wildfile, Other macros
From: Ted Green
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:53 AM

At 10:18 AM 10/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Outside of wildfile, there is nothing in the menu to change directories,
>so you must drop to command mode and type :

We are considering adding a "Change Directory" button to the File-open
dialog box.

VEDIT+ used to have a {FILE, Change directory} item, but we got rid of it
several years ago; it really confused new users.

You could add a "Change directory" item to the {USER} menu.

Windows has really obfuscated the concept of "current directory",
although it is as important as ever.

The on-line help topic "Editing Multiple Files - Starting (Default)
Directory for File-Open" describes how VEDIT uses and changes the current
directory.