How to show persistent working directory in vim

Question

A very simple question: is there a way to constantly show the current working directory at the bottom of a file opened by vim? Thanks.

Please note that this is another question, like here: How can I permanently display the path to the current file in Vim?

Here we want to show the full path to the current file being viewed, but I think it should show both, possibly two lines at the bottom of the file: one for the full path being viewed; another for the current working directory. The two may be different, because we can open a file that is not in the current working directory.

Answer 1

You can do this by adding these lines to your .vimrc

set laststatus=2 set statusline=%!getcwd() 

The first parameter is to configure the status line, which will always be visible, the second is to add the current working directory to the status line.

Read more about

• :h laststatus
• :h statusline
• :h getcwd()

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Edit: this is the answer to the question that the OP changed:

It is impossible to have a two-line status line (at least as far as I know). But you can add, for example, some formatting. So

 set laststatus=2 set statusline=%F set statusline+=%= set statusline+=%{getcwd()} 

For further study, I recommend reading the help that I mentioned earlier. Also, this question may be of some interest.