Get name of the current file in Vim

Question

I\'m trying to find the name of the file I\'m editing inside of Vim. So I can use it to map F5 to compile this file. Would of course be great if I could recognize

Answer 1

You can use the % character in vim commands to get the current filename with the extension. For example,

:!javac %

to run javac on the current file.

You can find out more with

:help filename-modifiers