Vim problem with gf command

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I am using Vim and I have set the path (set path+= c:/work/etc/etc) to my project directory (for C#), but still using command 'gf' give me error:

E:447 Can't find file.

Is there anything I am doing wrong over here?

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6 Answers

G'day,

To get a bit more detail on your current path settings you can see what's being included and the files vim can't find by entering the command:

:checkpath

and you'll get a dump of the files not found, e.g.

--- Included files not found in path --- 
<io.h> 
vim.h --> 
  <functions.h> 
  <clib/exec_protos.h>

Or you can get a listing of all included files, both found and not found, by entering

:checkpath!

Enter

:help path

to get more info on the path syntax.

Edit: Don't forget that using the syntax

set path=/work

will completely reset your path variable to what you've just declared. I'd suggest using

set path+=/work

instead. This won't clobber the current path and will just add your /work directory instead.

HTH

Rob_Wells_29740

First can you open the file using :find file.name ? (:help find for more info). If this does not work then your path is wrong. If :find does locate your file then do the following:

  1. Insure that you are not in Visual/Insert mode
  2. Place cursor on the first letter of the filename and press gf
user_2312110

Make sure there is no leading character to the file name if you press gf, i.e. using gf when the cursor is on help.txt will not work here:

file=help.txt
soulmerge_445620

I know this is an old question, but I also had some troubles with this for another reason and it took me some time to find out why. I hope this might be helpful to someone.

When a directory is matched with wildignore, gf does not work for files in it, nor does :find.

This is obvious if you read wildignore's documentation, but I forgot I ever changed this variable, and what it was for exactly. Also I used a glob, and it was not immediately apparent to me that the directory I was using gf in, was also matched with this glob.

ejac_180000

If you are talking about the gf tool wri††en by tomnomnom then here's how to set-up:

Setting PATH for GO (if you have not setup yet).

export GOROOT=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

Step 1: Download tool from github

Step 2: cp -r path/to/tomnomnom/gf/examples ~/.gf

Step 3: source ~/tools/gf/gf-completion.bash

Now gf should work along with auto-completion from anywhere. Source: Original sources are present at his repo.

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