In vim, when I have a buffer open, I often need to load a sibling file (another file in the same directory that file is in), but since I don't usually cd into it, the pwd is a parent folder, so I have to retype the path every time. Is there a shortcut for this? or a way to change the pwd to the directory the file is in?
Example:
cd /src
vi lib/foo/file.js
lib/foo has two files: file.js and file2.js
in vi:
:e file2.js # doesn't work
Newer versions of vim have a autochdir command built in, if not you can fall back to a BufEnter like setup.
" set vim to chdir for each file
if exists('+autochdir')
set autochdir
else
autocmd BufEnter * silent! lcd %:p:h:gs/ /\\ /
endif