created 2004 · complexity basic · author Chao-Kuo Lin · version 6.0
Even thought I can press "c" to switch directory if I want to execute a command in the directory that I am viewing with the explorer.vim plugin, but sometimes I don't want to actually change to that directory to execute it because I want to remain in whatever directory I am in such as a root directory of source files. So I opened up explorer.vim to see if I can add it directly to the plugin, but I found out that it can call a variable g:explFileHandler that stores the user defined function whenever the key 'x' is pressed on a file or directory. So I used that to implement executing a command in the viewing directory in my vimrc as follows:
function! MyFileHandler(filename)
let oldpath = getcwd()
let currentdirectory = ""
if(isdirectory(a:filename))
let currentdirectory = strpart(a:filename, 0, strlen(a:filename) - 1)
else
let currentdirectory = a:filename
endif
let lastslash = strridx(currentdirectory, "/")
let currentdirectory = strpart(currentdirectory, 0, lastslash)
let usercommand = input(currentdirectory . "# ")
if(strlen(usercommand) > 0)
execute "cd " . currentdirectory
execute "!" . usercommand
execute "cd " . oldpath
endif
endfunction
"
let g:explFileHandler = "MyFileHandler"
It will prompt the user with the directory mimicking a shell prompt where the user can enter the command.