Effect of changing directories in a vim command

Asked Jan 21 '21 at 07:32

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When executing a vim command, such as the following:

:w!<CR>:!cd %:p:h

What is the effect after the command is finished? Is the new cwd the directory that I've cd'ed into? Or does that only last for the duration of the command?

asked Jan 21 '21 at 07:32

David542

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Why would you want to cd to a different directory running in an external subprocess from Vim? That does not seem to make any sense. Rather use :cd or :lcd or :tcd or :set autochdir – Christian Brabandt Jan 21 '21 at 07:47
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Related: Why does !cd not change the directory Note that in your example the directory is not (directly) changed by a "Vim command" it's changed by a shell command in a different process (child). – B Layer Jan 21 '21 at 09:17

Effect of changing directories in a vim command

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