I have seen some solutions like @__DIR__ and pwd(), and even some suggest @__FILE__. But these do not do what I really want. What is it that I want? The location to the file that I currently have open in atom/vscode. Note that the file I have open may not necessarily be in the same directory or fol…

@__DIR__ and similar should always give you an answer relative to the current file if you’re using inline evaluation (Alt-Enter by default). If you paste code into the REPL (manually or via Ctrl-Enter) then you’ll also get the REPL behaviour, which of course falls back to pwd. If you’re seeing diff…

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jovansam June 22, 2021, 9:29am 11

Ahhh I know see the difference after looking more carefully at alt + enter. But I am also a bit confused and surprised at dependence of this on which method I use to run the code.

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