patch 8.0.1781: file names in quickfix window are not shortened commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/a796d46f29e3cc235cc981696d7ee80faccb5000 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue May 1 14:30:36 2018 +0200 patch 8.0.1781: file names in quickfix window are not shortened Problem: File names in quickfix window are not always shortened. Solution: Shorten the file name when opening the quickfix window. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #2851, closes #2846)

--- a/src/proto/fileio.pro
+++ b/src/proto/fileio.pro
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ void msg_add_fname(buf_T *buf, char_u *f
 void msg_add_lines(int insert_space, long lnum, off_T nchars);
 char_u *shorten_fname1(char_u *full_path);
 char_u *shorten_fname(char_u *full_path, char_u *dir_name);
+void shorten_buf_fname(buf_T *buf, char_u *dirname, int force);
 void shorten_fnames(int force);
 void shorten_filenames(char_u **fnames, int count);
 char_u *modname(char_u *fname, char_u *ext, int prepend_dot);