Re: Directing which window is changed with :copen

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Tim Chase  wrote:
> On 2017-10-20 21:04, Tim Chase wrote:
>> Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask.  I frequently
>> will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the
>> resulting navigation to open in a new window.
>
> Digging a little further, it's not quite as capricious/malicious as
> I'd thought.  The help does state that it will open in the window
> immediately above the quickfix window. It just usually happens that
> the window I want to preserve is in that position at the bottom of
> my window-stack.  I did also encounter ^W_ which seems to solve
> most of my problems. Though it would be nice to be able to choose
> which window the default  tromped.
>

Yes. As you found out, the window just above the quickfix window
is used to open a selected file. The 'switchbuf' option can be used to
control which windows/buffers are used by the quickfix jump commands.
It currently doesn't have a 'useprev' option to use the previous window.

- Yegappan

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Re: Directing which window is changed with :copen

[Tim Chase]

On 2017-10-20 21:04, Tim Chase wrote:
> Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask.  I frequently
> will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the
> resulting navigation to open in a new window.

Digging a little further, it's not quite as capricious/malicious as
I'd thought.  The help does state that it will open in the window
immediately above the quickfix window. It just usually happens that
the window I want to preserve is in that position at the bottom of
my window-stack.  I did also encounter ^W_ which seems to solve
most of my problems. Though it would be nice to be able to choose
which window the default  tromped.

-tim



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Re: Directing which window is changed with :copen

[Ben Fritz]

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:04:29 PM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:
> Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask.  I frequently
> will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the resulting
> navigation to open in a new window.
> 
>   $ vim somefile.c
>   :echo 'In my main code window'
>   :new
>   :echo 'I want my vimgrep results HERE'
>   :vimgrep /pattern/ *.[ch]
>   :copen
> 
> Navigating to my desired entry in the quickfix list and hitting Enter
> on the desired line ends up navigating in my original "main code"
> window, not in the window I ":copen"ed.
> 
> 1)  how to I know which window the Enter will impact?  Vim seems to
> have an uncanny ability to choose the one I *least* want to change.
> 
> 2)  how can I tell Vim which window I want the resulting quick-fix
> "Enter" navigation to go into?
> 
> Thanks,

Do :copen, then put the cursor in the window you want, then jump directly to 
the quickfix window (e.g. with CTRL-W_b). After that the correct window should 
be used.

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Directing which window is changed with :copen

[Tim Chase]

Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask.  I frequently
will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the resulting
navigation to open in a new window.

  $ vim somefile.c
  :echo 'In my main code window'
  :new
  :echo 'I want my vimgrep results HERE'
  :vimgrep /pattern/ *.[ch]
  :copen

Navigating to my desired entry in the quickfix list and hitting Enter
on the desired line ends up navigating in my original "main code"
window, not in the window I ":copen"ed.

1)  how to I know which window the Enter will impact?  Vim seems to
have an uncanny ability to choose the one I *least* want to change.

2)  how can I tell Vim which window I want the resulting quick-fix
"Enter" navigation to go into?

Thanks,

-tim



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