vi and ispell
Mitchell Patenaude
mrp at sonic.net
Tue Apr 4 16:19:18 PDT 2000
My best guess is that something in your .bachrc is cd'ing to your $HOME.
You'd almost never notice this when you log in, but it'd bite you here.
Simple enough to test. While in vi, type :!pwd,
-- Mitch
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:43:03PM +0000, E Frank Ball wrote:
>
> Ok I have a vi question I didn't think of when we had our guest speaker on vi.
>
> On HP-UX I have this in my ~/.exrc file:
>
> map ^T :w^M:!ispell -x % ^M:e!^M^M
>
> And when I'm editing a file I type a <ctrl>t and it pipes the file to ispell.
>
> On Linux this doesn't work, unless the file is in my home directory.
> It comes back with:
>
> :!ispell filename
> ispell: specified file does not exist
>
> where filename is the name of the file I'm editing.
>
> If I type in
> :!ispell -x /fullpath/%
> Then it works.
>
> How can I make vi look in my current directory instead of my home directory?
>
> E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
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