Explicitly specifying cwd does not work as described in the document

[lastland]

In the document it says you can specify current working directory like this:

%(cwd) ls 

What I've actually got is:

Welcome to the Ammonite Repl 0.4.7
(Scala 2.11.7 Java 1.8.0_40)
@ import ammonite.ops._
import ammonite.ops._
@ %(cwd) ls
Compilation Failed
Main.scala:93: could not find implicit value for parameter wd: ammonite.ops.Path
%(cwd) ls
 ^

With implicit wd imported, it will be:

@ import ammonite.ops.ImplicitWd._
import ammonite.ops.ImplicitWd._
@ %(cwd) ls
Compilation Failed
Main.scala:110: value ls is not a member of Int
%(cwd) ls
       ^

[lihaoyi]

Looks like it rotted because the example wasn't taken from a unit test, shouldn't be too hard to fix it and keep it working in future

[lastland]

How do you plan to make it work with features like "invoking files"?

%(cwd/'other) cwd/'something%(args) or cwd/'something%(cwd/'other)? The first one looks quite strange with two %s. The latter one looks better, but how do you tell whether cwd/'other is the working directory or an argument?

[lihaoyi]

Haven't quite figured it out yet; probably will change the syntax in the next major version

[lihaoyi]

This will be fixed by (the poorly named commit) c67d59a. The "final" syntax will be

%(cwd/'other, args)

[lastland]

Thanks for the fix! I see that you can now use %.ls()(cwd) to explicitly declare the working directory, but I'm still not sure what it will be like, say, invoking a program from wd1 at wd2?

[lihaoyi]

@lastland you'd so something like

%.apply(wd1/'program1, args)(wd2)

It's kinda annoying you have to do the explicit .apply thing, but that's Scala for you.

You could also make wd2 implicit and it'll get picked up automatically

[lastland]

Thanks! I see. 😄

Do you think if this usage should be tested or documented as well? I understand that wd2 can be made implicit (and I like that design very much) but in some cases it may be easier to explicitly specify one.

[lihaoyi]

Yeah it should be... I'll go do that now