On Tue, June 16, 2015 15:15, Jonathan Billings wrote:

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:56:58AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:

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When I gvim a file from gnome, gvim's working directory is always my home directory. [snip] I am looking for a way to give gvim the correct working directory. Is this a gnome thing?

No, it's not a GNOME thing. I assume you're opening up gvim from a menu? Then your current working directory is $HOME. That's the way unix/linux works when you start a program and your CWD is $HOME. The graphical interface has a CWD of $HOME, so anything it forks will too.

What I do is open a terminal session; cd to the working directory I desire, and then run gvim from the command line.