Prevent changing directory when restoring view. about vim-stay

[kopischke]

Ah, yes, the lcd issue. Actually, it’s a known quirk of :mkview I documented in the plugin help’s FAQTroubleshooting section. The maddening thing about it is that it is both inconsistent (according to the Vim help, it should only store actually set local working directories, but that seems to be wishful thinking: I’ve noticed it often, but, crucially, not always, switches when there is no need to) and hard to fix (due to the train wreck Vim’s working directory API is).

I’ll ponder approaches to fixing this (again – it’s been sitting in the private Trello for this plugin for quite some time now), but I can’t promise anything ATM.

[kopischke]

Until I get around to this, you might be interested in the workaround I suggested in #10 .

[sergei-dyshel]

Thanks! This is much better than the workaround that I've been using - save cwd on Vim start and cd to it on each file opening.

[blueyed]

JFI: Neovim has tab local directories now additionally: neovim/neovim@5ebffaa

[kopischke]

Thanks, but I was aware of that, having been part of the discussion that led to the feature ;). Unluckily, neither that feature nor Vim’s recent getcwd() patch affect my previous arguments much. I have been pondering a different approach for a while now, and might integrate it into the 1.5 release. Speaking of which, did you have an opportunity to look at #13?