Oni: opening using `oni <dir>` does not set the dir correctly

[danielb2]

<dir> appears to be sticky. So the first time I opened oni, it was in a specific dir. Unless I change the dir with :cd <dir> the dir appears to be sticky.

expected:

oni . should use the pwd to set the dir correctly for example.

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[justinmk]

This is something that only atom does afaik. Not vim.

[danielb2]

if i'm opening vim in a folder, and I open NerdTree or whatever, it's not going to show files in some other directory I opened hours earlier.

Any GUI I've used be it atom, sublime, whatever, will show the explorer in the dir it was opened in.

[justinmk]

That's not the same thing as your original request.

[danielb2]

Yes it is. I'm talking about opening oni with oni <dir> and it showing the explorer for that dir.

oni . is one example. If I start it like that now, it is remembering the last directory I did a :cd to. I don't know where it's storing that, but it's not in the config dir.

[justinmk]

What directory are you starting from? Oh, in the case of oni . obviously it should use CWD. But it should do that even without the . arg.

I just tried it, you're right that Oni remembers the last :cd and doesn't look at the CWD where oni was invoked. That does seem wrong. I was confused by the mention of oni <dir>, because the I've seen other requests in the past asking for nvim <dir> to set the CWD to <dir> (which Atom does, IIRC).

[badosu]

I am not sure invoking oni without arguments should set the cwd. The reason is that users that for some reason don't have a shell-less command to run Oni would always open it in the ~ dir, e.g. starting a terminal and running Oni.

My suggestion would be to adhere to the following convention:

• oni: Opens Oni without setting cwd, i.e. loads the last cwd remembered
• oni <dir>: Opens Oni with cwd set as <dir> (including .). Even better if NETRW opened as well.
• oni <file>: I think it's really annoying when the file explorer displays a project's tree that has no relation to the file I am editing, this would improve the quality of life for people who need to perform quick tweaks on occasion. Opening with pwd or the file's directory would work for me.