what does “%:p:h” mean in VIM

Question

I know ':cd %:p:h ' will change the working directory to the dir for current editing file. But what's the magic in %:p:h ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

oh, I get this link: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/cmdline.html#filename-modifiers

:p Make file name a full path.

:h Head of the file name (the last component and any separators removed)