Directories and files in vim

[yuva]

I have some files in some directory and some other in some other directory..
Is there a way to open files these as if all of them are present in the same directory..

I mean say 2 files are in ~/Desktop/folder1
2 files are in home/user

i opened terminal and am in home/user

But i need to open the files from folder1 without doing cd to the folder1 directory..

[techieMoe]

Yes. Use the file's path. For instance, say you have 2 directories called "dirA" and "dirB", each with a file in them. From your root directory (in this case it's /home/) you can access either file by giving it's path:

cat /dirA/file1 /dirB/file2

This example uses both files from inside your home directory without having to change directories.

[yuva]

I dont want them to get printed on terminal ...
I want to open the files on after the other in vim without cding to other directory...

[techieMoe]

I dont want them to get printed on terminal ...
I want to open the files on after the other in vim without cding to other directory...

I don't understand what you're asking. You're in vim and you want to open one file after another? The path should work.

[yuva]

let me in home/user/folder1 in terminal ...


i want to open files in terminal(in vim) in /home/user/folder2 without changing directory in terminal..

[yuva]

I am asking whether can we link files in one directory to another directory..

[techieMoe]

let me in home/user/folder1 in terminal ...


i want to open files in terminal(in vim) in /home/user/folder2 without changing directory in terminal..

Ok. You can't tell vim to open the file in "/home/user/folder2/somefile"? Are you getting an error of some sort? You shouldn't have to do any weird directory changing from inside of vim.

I'm going to leave this one to someone more familiar with vim. Perhaps there's something obvious here that I'm just not seeing.

[void_false]

I want to open the files on after the other in vim without cding to other directory...

$ vim ~/Documents/text.txt ~/Desktop/folder1/text2.txt

This will open 2 files (text.txt and text2.txt) for you in vim one after another.