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I would prefer that than having the file cursor be at the top of the folder
To get what you prefer you can easily rebind
C-x C-f to your custom function
How do i do SPC f f ?
if i do that, i literally get a space and two f's : )
in any case, do you know what i would have to rebind C-x-f to get the behavior i want? I want it to be 'helm find files', but i just want the cursor to point at the current open file
I thought let's make the filename the initial input, but then the other files and dirs are not listed
Luckily it should be easily possible in helm emacs-helm/helm#1014
oops
its strange because the default behavior for 'helm find files' is for the cursor to point at the current open file
a least when i use it in vanilla emacs
So then just rebind
SPC f f or C-x C-f to that
Is
SPC f f working now?
Okay, maybe then you are not in a file-buffer
I should be, i have a file open in spacemacs then i do C-x C-f, spacemacs opens the directory where the file is in, but the cursor is at the top instead of at the current file
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-x C-f") 'helm-find-files)
Evaluate that line to rebind it
So you are using emacs editing style then?
So you are using emacs editing style then?
Yes, i prefer that than vim style
But whatever you prefer of course
You can press
M-: then insert that line end press enter
Or better, place it in the
user-config section of your dotfile (and reload with M-m f e R)
Or better, place it in the
user-configsection of your dotfile (and reload withM-m f e R)
Thanks a lot! that did the trick!
Is there not a way to get the spacemacs/helm-find-file to do the same?
Is there not a way to get the spacemacs/helm-find-file to do the same?
Yes there is
If you look at the definition of the function you will see that that function explicitly preselects the directory instead of the file, which makes sense also...
So you can copy that function to your user init, and replace
helm-current-directory with buffer-file-name
inside that function
It is still very easy