I regularly use Vuejs and Webpack with the "@" character for file resolution, like so
import MyComponent from "@/components/MyComponent.vue";
However, I cannot use the vim gf command to move to this file.
E447: Can't find file "/components/MyComponent.vue" in path
I have spent a couple of hours googling, messing around with the vim path and includeexpr. I have also tried a couple of plugins, like vim-npr or vim-gotofile.
Has anyone encountered the same problem and found a solution?
edit
Best thing I came up with so far is this:
:set inex=substitute(v:fname,'^\\@\/','src/','')
found it in another stackoverflow thread where they where using the ~ character for this. However it doesn't work with @. I get this error when trying to gf
E869: (NFA) Unknown operator '\@/'
My Solution
With help from @romainl I now have this set up in both after/ftplugin/vue.vim and after/ftplugin/javascript.vim
setlocal isfname =@-@
setlocal includeexpr=substitute(v:fname,'^@\/','src/','')
Thank you for your help!
CodePudding user response：
In the linked question, ~ is escaped because ~ has a special meaning for Vim's regexp engine: "matches the last given substitute string".
But @ is not special in any way so there is no need to escape it:
setlocal includeexpr=substitute(v:fname,'^@\/','src/','')
As you noticed, there is another problem. Vim uses :help 'isfname' to define v:fname but the option's value doesn't contain the @ character by default so it is left out out of v:fname. Since there is no @ in v:fname, the pattern in substitute() doesn't match and we end up with:
| Actual string | v:fname |
After includeexpr |
Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
@/foo/bar.vue |
/foo/bar.vue |
/foo/bar.vue |
Not found |
The solution is to add @ to isfname:
setlocal isfname =@-@
which gives us:
| Actual string | v:fname |
After includeexpr |
Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
@/foo/bar.vue |
@/foo/bar.vue |
src/foo/bar.vue |
Found |
Tested to work with $ vim -Nu NONE file.js.
Now, the settings above being filetype-specific, it is best to put them in a ftplugin. Assuming the filetype of your buffers is javascript, a proper location would be:
" on Unix-like systems
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/javascript.vim
" on Windows
%USERPROFILE%\vimfiles\after\ftplugin\javascript.vim
YMMV.
Note that, in the answers to the linked questions, ^\\~ is incorrect and throws an error E874. The correct pattern is ^\~.