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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: including filename with vi
Summary: and if you aren't using csh ...
Message-ID: <1990Nov05.055022.3188@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 05:50:22 GMT
References: <484@ssc.UUCP> <sbAjPar0BwwZ0TUlMy@transarc.com>
Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
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Dan_Bloch@TRANSARC.COM wrote in <sbAjPar0BwwZ0TUlMy@transarc.com>:

| To insert the filename as it was given to vi:
| 
|     :r !echo %
| 
| To insert the current pathname followed by this:
| 
|     :r !echo $cwd/%

The second suggestion is rather csh-specific.  In sh or ksh, :r !echo $PWD/%
is the equivalent, but the current directory will get named twice if vi was
given the full pathname.  [That might happen with Dan's suggestion as well; I
know nothing about csh, but I get the feeling it would.]  $cwd|$PWD will
genrally match the directory % is in if % is not a full path.

If you have a command available that gives full paths for files (let's call
it "path" for the example), then    :r !path %    should work regardless of
which shell you're using.

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