I have tried unsuccessfully to copy the pwd to pbcopy as follows
pwd | !pbcopy
How can you copy your path in Vim's ED editor (: -mode)?
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is pbcopy something mac specific? – ojblass Apr 19 '09 at 00:40
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1If you want to put the pwd into vim :,!pwd will put it into it. – ojblass Apr 19 '09 at 00:41
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How about "*p? the star register is the system clipboard i think – ojblass Apr 19 '09 at 00:46
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Please clarify what you want to achieve? – Mykola Golubyev Apr 27 '09 at 13:45
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@Mykola: to copy the location of my file in vim to clipboard. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Apr 27 '09 at 14:06
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I've edit the answer. I hope I've understood. – Mykola Golubyev Apr 27 '09 at 14:31
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@Mykola: Do you mean to run the two new commands at : in vim? I did it unsuccessfully. I get gett the following error messages: http://dpaste.com/39435/ – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Apr 29 '09 at 21:33
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A lot of ways
in terminal
pwd | !pbcopy
and then in vim
"*p
in vim
:!r pwd
or in insert mode
<C-R>=getcwd()<CR>
or
<C-R>=system('pwd')<CR>
Current file location to the clipboard
:let @*=expand('%:p:h')
Current vim dir to the clipboard
:let @*=getcwd()
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while you type press Ctrl+r and then type 'getcwd()' and press enter. – Mykola Golubyev Apr 19 '09 at 11:14
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Do you mean to use at Vim : -mode the pwd | !pbcopy? It does not copy the path for me. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Apr 27 '09 at 12:31
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Why not :!pwd|pbcopy?
Use the command
cd
to the current working directory if needed with the command
lcd %:p:h
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@jmdeldin: What do you mean with the last command? I did not get it to work in Vim. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 May 05 '09 at 05:25
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It lets you change Vim's current working directory. For example: $ cd ~/Documents $ vim ../.vimrc Vim's `cwd == ~/Documents/`, so you could `:lcd %:p:h` so `cwd = ~/`. Does that help? – jmdeldin May 06 '09 at 03:22