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Comment by wahnfrieden | Hacker News Reader

Isn't there some way of using % to open a file relative to the current one perhaps? To get the best of both worlds.

I'm using the following to expand "%%" in command mode to the full path of the current open file's directory:

  cabbr <expr> %% expand('%:p:h')

You could also use :. instead of :p to get the relative path, see :help c_% and :help filename_modifiers

Wow, elegant. Thank you!

I use:

    map <leader>e :e <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>

you can make one that splits:

    map <leader>v :vs <C-r>=expand("%:p:h") . "/" <cr>