[Israel.pm] directory changes and embedded perl interpreter on windows

[Moshe Kaminsky]

Hi,

I'm working with vim, an enhanced version of the vi text editor with an 
embedded perl interpreter. It has versions for both linux and windows.  
On windows, I discovered that when I change directory in vim, the 
embedded perl interpreter is not aware of this change (if you have vim 
on windows, just try
  :cd C:\foo
and then
  :perl use Cwd;VIM::Msg(cwd);
you will see that you are still in the directory where vim was started).  
This does not happen on Linux.

I tried to report it as a vim bug, but the author of vim claims that 
determining the current working directory is left entirely to the perl 
interpreter. Therefore, it should be a general problem when embedding 
perl on windows.
Can someone verify it? Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Moshe

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