Ok so here’s the situation, say you’ve got the following tree structure:
~/genau
❯ tree
.
├── example
│ ├── one.txt
│ ├── three.sh
│ └── two.md
├── stuff
└── thing
If you run nvim example
, Neovim will open up in the ~/genau
directory. But that’s not what I want! I want Neovim to cd
into the example
directory and open that up as the pwd
.
Incredible idea, I know. And it’s an achievable goal! All you’ve gotta do it add a function to your ~/.zshrc
file (or .bashrc
or .fshrc
or whatever shell the kids are using these days.)
Here’s the function:
nvim() {
if [ $# -eq 1 ] && [ -d "$1" ]; then
command nvim -c "cd $1"
else
command nvim "$@"
fi
}
You may need to remove any aliases that use nvim
– not sure if they’ll cause conflicts but it’s worth noting all the same.
That’s about it.