VIM: Use the working directory in a path setting

Question

Basically, what I'm trying to do is have VIM search for dictionary/thesaurus results using dictionary.txt and thesaurus.txt in the current working directory.

So what I've tried in vimrc is something like:

set thesaurus=:pwd/thesaurus.txt

without much luck.

Has anyone gotten something like this to work?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '12 at 08:15

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:set thesaurus=thesaurus.txt seems to work for me. It's already relative to the current working directory.

answered Feb 18 '12 at 08:15

Itay Perl

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Wow, I was way over-thinking it lol. Duh... Thanks a bunch :) – BraedenP Feb 18 '12 at 18:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '12 at 08:28

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You should try with a dot:

set thesaurus=./thesaurus.txt

See :help path.

answered Feb 18 '12 at 08:28

romainl

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Actually I'm wrong. `./something` means roughly "in the same directory as the current file" which may or may not be the same directory as the working directory. – romainl Feb 18 '12 at 08:36

VIM: Use the working directory in a path setting

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