[vim/vim] How to expand to full path WITH drive letter under windows? (#8656)

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Dmytro Z.

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:03:33 AM7/29/21
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Hi.
I am unable to find answer so asking here.
I need to get current buffer path WITH the windows drive letter.
But :echo expand( "%:p" ) always strips drive letter.
How I can solve this problem?

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Christian Brabandt

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:48:03 AM7/29/21
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I cannot reproduce this. What version is this? If I do gvim --clean -c ':h' -c 'only' -c "echo expand('%:p')" I correctly see the complete path: C:\Program Files\Vim\vim82\doc\help.txt

This is version 8.2.3161 from the vim-win32-installer

Dmytro Z.

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:57:21 AM7/29/21
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Oh, seems, that this is neovim only issue.
Sorry.

Christian Brabandt

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:59:46 AM7/29/21
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Closed #8656.

Gary Johnson

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Jul 29, 2021, 4:05:31 AM7/29/21
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On 2021-07-29, Dmytro Z. wrote:
> Hi.
> I am unable to find answer so asking here.
> I need to get current buffer path WITH the windows drive letter.
> But :echo expand( "%:p" ) always strips drive letter.
> How I can solve this problem?

I'm afraid I don't know what the problem might be. It works just
fine for me using Vim 8.2.3227 on Windows 10. I didn't see anything
in the documentation about optionally removing drive letters.

Regards,
Gary

vim-dev ML

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Jul 29, 2021, 4:05:49 AM7/29/21
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On 2021-07-29, Dmytro Z. wrote:
> Hi.
> I am unable to find answer so asking here.
> I need to get current buffer path WITH the windows drive letter.
> But :echo expand( "%:p" ) always strips drive letter.
> How I can solve this problem?

I'm afraid I don't know what the problem might be. It works just
fine for me using Vim 8.2.3227 on Windows 10. I didn't see anything
in the documentation about optionally removing drive letters.

Regards,
Gary

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