Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-09 Thread Eric Arnold

WinWalker.vim is also using 'mksession'.  You can certainly use it
from a regular mapping.  The main advantage from using the call
supported from within the script is that additional settings useful
for WinWalker are saved in a ...x.vim session compliment file (i.e. it
saves information about window auto-resizing, placement, and
attachments).



On 6/9/06, Marc Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >:help tabpage.txt
See also :h mksession .. That is was ZoomWin.vim (from Charles E. Campbell) is 
using..
You can get it on vim.org

Marc



Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-09 Thread Eric Arnold

On 6/9/06, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Eric Arnold wrote:
> I found that the contents of a particular ordinal tab number was too
> fluid to be of much use to me, so I concentrated on making relative
> navigation easier, but I could be alone in that.
>
> The way it stands, you can make a macro sequence from inside the
> script using:
>
> {m}isc menu -> {ma}cro keys
>
> ... from key: 
> ... to keys: :1 tabnext
>
> using the (":" ex command passthrough).
>
> SImilarly, outside the script,
>
> nnoremap  :1 tabnext
>
> accomplishes the same thing.
IIUC, gt is the same as  after :nnoremap  :1 tabnext



I don't think so, as "gt" is "move to next tab", whereas "tabnext 1"
and "1 tabnext" move to {count} tab number, not "next {count} number
of tabs".


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-09 Thread Ilya

Eric Arnold wrote:

I found that the contents of a particular ordinal tab number was too
fluid to be of much use to me, so I concentrated on making relative
navigation easier, but I could be alone in that.

The way it stands, you can make a macro sequence from inside the 
script using:


{m}isc menu -> {ma}cro keys

... from key: 
... to keys: :1 tabnext

using the (":" ex command passthrough).

SImilarly, outside the script,

nnoremap  :1 tabnext

accomplishes the same thing.

IIUC, gt is the same as  after :nnoremap  :1 tabnext


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-09 Thread Eric Arnold

I found that the contents of a particular ordinal tab number was too
fluid to be of much use to me, so I concentrated on making relative
navigation easier, but I could be alone in that.

The way it stands, you can make a macro sequence from inside the script using:

{m}isc menu -> {ma}cro keys

... from key: 
... to keys: :1 tabnext

using the (":" ex command passthrough).

SImilarly, outside the script,

nnoremap  :1 tabnext

accomplishes the same thing.



On 6/8/06, Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 6/8/06, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is tabs in vim 7.0.  They are almost exactly what you are talking
> about, except that, IIUC, there is no binding to a key.  But it is
> possible, that some scripts could help.
>
> :help tabpage.txt

Thanks a lot for this hint, this is pretty much what I was looking
for.  I hadn't installed vim 7.0 yet so I didn't know that this
feature is already available.  Great stuff!  Having some default way
to bind tabs to keys (similar to storing buffer positions) would be
great, too, but I'm already quite happy with the current feature.

Regards,
Markus

--
Markus Mottlhttp://www.ocaml.info[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-09 Thread Marc Weber
> >:help tabpage.txt
See also :h mksession .. That is was ZoomWin.vim (from Charles E. Campbell) is 
using..
You can get it on vim.org

Marc


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-08 Thread Markus Mottl

On 6/8/06, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

There is tabs in vim 7.0.  They are almost exactly what you are talking
about, except that, IIUC, there is no binding to a key.  But it is
possible, that some scripts could help.

:help tabpage.txt


Thanks a lot for this hint, this is pretty much what I was looking
for.  I hadn't installed vim 7.0 yet so I didn't know that this
feature is already available.  Great stuff!  Having some default way
to bind tabs to keys (similar to storing buffer positions) would be
great, too, but I'm already quite happy with the current feature.

Regards,
Markus

--
Markus Mottlhttp://www.ocaml.info[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Arnold

I wrote the WinWalker.vim script partly with this sort of thing in
mind.  Combining window layouts with sessions and macro keys (both
supported from inside the plugin), and Vim7 tabs should do what I
think you mean.

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1522



> On 6/8/06, Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the developer list so I don't know whether this has already
>> been discussed here.
>>
>> One thing I encounter frequently is that I have tons of open buffers,
>> especially also from different projects, and I would like to switch
>> between sets of windows very quickly.  It would be great if Vim had a
>> feature that allowed me to bind the current layout of windows (buffers
>> contained, positions + dimensions, etc.) to a key.  Jumping between
>> projects would then be really easy.
>>
>> One can, of course, use several terminals and start multiple
>> Vim-instances in them, but this is inconvenient, because one cannot
>> easily share data between them (registers, etc.).
>>


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-08 Thread Ilya

Yakov Lerner wrote:

On 6/8/06, Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to the developer list so I don't know whether this has already
been discussed here.

One thing I encounter frequently is that I have tons of open buffers,
especially also from different projects, and I would like to switch
between sets of windows very quickly.  It would be great if Vim had a
feature that allowed me to bind the current layout of windows (buffers
contained, positions + dimensions, etc.) to a key.  Jumping between
projects would then be really easy.

One can, of course, use several terminals and start multiple
Vim-instances in them, but this is inconvenient, because one cannot
easily share data between them (registers, etc.).

It seems to me that this feature should be fairly easy to implement.
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem?


Vim has mechanism of mapping keys to user-defined
commends/scripts/functions. If you can write vim function(s)
that, say, delete current windows and then re-create
desirable windows layout (using sequence of vim commands)
then it's definitely possible to bind call to such a function to
the key. You'll probably need one window-creating function
per "project". Only you know your window layout, so
only you can write such function. Once you wrote the function, we'll
help you to map it to the keys yuo select.

I don't think vim is missing any elemental functionality
needed for such scripts yuo describe. For more info:

   :help vim-script-info
   :help key-mapping

Yakov


There is a concept of sessions in vim (:help session) - close to what 
you are describing, but I doubt it is the very best way to work with 
several project at the same time.


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-08 Thread Yakov Lerner

On 6/8/06, Markus Mottl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to the developer list so I don't know whether this has already
been discussed here.

One thing I encounter frequently is that I have tons of open buffers,
especially also from different projects, and I would like to switch
between sets of windows very quickly.  It would be great if Vim had a
feature that allowed me to bind the current layout of windows (buffers
contained, positions + dimensions, etc.) to a key.  Jumping between
projects would then be really easy.

One can, of course, use several terminals and start multiple
Vim-instances in them, but this is inconvenient, because one cannot
easily share data between them (registers, etc.).

It seems to me that this feature should be fairly easy to implement.
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem?


Vim has mechanism of mapping keys to user-defined
commends/scripts/functions. If you can write vim function(s)
that, say, delete current windows and then re-create
desirable windows layout (using sequence of vim commands)
then it's definitely possible to bind call to such a function to
the key. You'll probably need one window-creating function
per "project". Only you know your window layout, so
only you can write such function. Once you wrote the function, we'll
help you to map it to the keys yuo select.

I don't think vim is missing any elemental functionality
needed for such scripts yuo describe. For more info:

   :help vim-script-info
   :help key-mapping

Yakov


Re: New feature: bind layout of windows to keys?

2006-06-08 Thread Ilya

Markus Mottl wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to the developer list so I don't know whether this has already
been discussed here.

One thing I encounter frequently is that I have tons of open buffers,
especially also from different projects, and I would like to switch
between sets of windows very quickly.  It would be great if Vim had a
feature that allowed me to bind the current layout of windows (buffers
contained, positions + dimensions, etc.) to a key.  Jumping between
projects would then be really easy.

One can, of course, use several terminals and start multiple
Vim-instances in them, but this is inconvenient, because one cannot
easily share data between them (registers, etc.).

It seems to me that this feature should be fairly easy to implement.
Any suggestions on how to approach this problem?

Regards,
Markus

There is tabs in vim 7.0.  They are almost exactly what you are talking 
about, except that, IIUC, there is no binding to a key.  But it is 
possible, that some scripts could help.


:help tabpage.txt