ST3: afn_proj_root not working

[ghost]

With the following settings:

"afn_use_project_root": true,
"afn_proj_root": "/"

I load my project but I sill get my boot drive root when typing / on a path. It should start from my project root, no?

Tested on ST3, Mac OS X 10.7.5.

[liamcain]

Maybe I should have made afn_proj_root more clear. Use that to specify either the absolute path to your project or the relative path from the current file. So if your project is in ~/Projects/my_project/ you would put that as the path. If you want to just use the root of your Sublime Text project, you can leave afn_proj_root blank.

[ghost]

I see... so if I use "afn_proj_root": "/path/to/project1", it works on a specific project. But if I load another .sublime-project file ( Project > Quick Switch Project ) the path will not be the same anymore. If I leave it blank, "afn_proj_root": "", typing / on a path will default to ST's default packages folder (?).

I don't think I'm doing it right. How should I set it so by typing / it will always default to the current loaded project root?

[liamcain]

Hmm okay. I'll take a look at it soon. Sounds like a bug. It shouldn't be using the st packages directory at all. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[ghost]

'Kay, thanks :+1:

[ghost]

And now, typing / with "afn_proj_root": "" set, shows Sublime Text's Package Contents (OS X)... Not sure what happened in between but just reporting that it seems that's going after ST's Packages folder anyway.

[evoactivity]

Has there been any progress with this bug?

edit: ok, so I know this is not the right way to fix it, but I wanted a solution tonight and it works for me

I changed line 232 from

if proot:

to

if len(proot)>1:

and line 240 from

cur_path = f

to

cur_path = f + cur_path

The problem appears to be that setting "afn_proj_root" to "" doesn't actually seem to overwrite the default of "../"

[alexbet]

I also need this fixed, but this bug seems to have been ignored for 6 months now. Evoactivity, do you mind telling me where you edited this so I can do it too?

[evoactivity]

@alexbet install PackageResourceViewer through the package manager, then hit ctrl + shit +p and select "Open Resource", you can then select AutoFileName which will show you the files in the package, then edit autofilename.py with the changes I posted above. Like I said, it's definitely not the right way to fix this, which is why I didn't submit a pull request, I don't know enough about python or the sublime api to fix this properly.

[alexbet]

@evoactivity thanks a lot, that worked like a charm. :)

[certainlyakey]

@evoactivity's tip helped me too, but to get things working I had to check the ST documentation, where it's stated how custom settings should be added to project file:

{
    "folders":
    [
        {
            "path": "/",
        },
    ],
    "settings": {
        "afn_use_project_root": true,
        "afn_proj_root": "/Volumes/doxx/Dropbox/docs/journ/workshops"
    }
}

Also, empty or absent afn_proj_root setting does not make stuff happening, only full path to the project, which makes this settings file nontransferable.

[cyrusdavid]

@certainlyakey's explanation works!

[katrinkerber]

Running on ST2 on OSX and I can't get root paths to work.

I've added settings to the project's file the way @certainlyakey pointed out, but starting with a / still shows the folders of my disk root. And I can't find the lines of code in the autofilename.py that @evoactivity pointed out.

Anyone know a solution or an alternative plugin/way?

[juancpgo]

Same issue here, it's showing disk root. I have to edit the sublime-project file. I think that should be default the root to be the current root folder opened in sublime.

[matthewlein]

Thanks for the tip, its still an issue. The sublime-project solution worked, along with the string "true" fix for widths, I'm all set!

[brightwiths]

Tried to set this by the guide in this topic. But no work. "settings": { "afn_valid_scopes":["string","css","sass","less","scss","pug"], "afn_use_project_root": true, "afn_proj_root": "release/img" } I using Pug and my result files located in /release