Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-22 Thread Aaron Griffin
On 6/21/06, Nick Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Textmate, that I mentioned, also works on a Project basis and my only qualms about that approach is that I'm often jumping between projects ...eg I may open a file from one project to use in another and so on. That's what tabs are for!

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Lo
Ha yeah thanks Aaron, of course but I was kind of referring to the Textmate and jEdit approaches as I've not tried the project plugin. True enough Vim has tabs now, unfortunately as I mentioned in previous posts I've been having a few small bugs with split windows in different tabs. Of

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, * On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:43:19PM -0700, Suresh Govindachar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can type :find (with space) and hit tab to see the list of files in the present directory. If I know there is an 'o' in the file's name, I can type :find *o* and hit tab to see all files (in

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Nick Lo wrote: Also, after playing with the new tabs I found a bug where the 4 window split would disappear if I opened a few tabs and came back to the 4 windowed one. This was in fact the point where I asked ...well do I actually NEED the static file browser. Do you have a

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Eric Arnold
To further stretch the use of the Ex prompt for this, try CD_Plus.vim. On 6/20/06, Nick Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt, I did have the feeling that I could bend Vim to my old ways, but this revelation was more about realising that I wasn't using features that make Vim different from

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Bram, Yes it's reproducible: I'm using the OS X Universal binary... http://macvim.org/OSX/files/binaries/OSX10.4/Vim7.0-univ.tar.bz2 ...from... http://macvim.org/OSX/index.php and have upgraded netrw to v100. It's files reside in my .vim directory while the OS X package still has the

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Nick Lo wrote: Actually on a bit more exploration it also seems that if you: - Open that split file/netrw window - :tabnew with a new file in - Go to another OS X application - Return to Vim - Click the the split window and again the netrw window will have disappeared If you just

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Chip, Via the GUI menu Netrw Settings/Options I see I do have: let g:netrw_fastbrowse = 0 I tried setting it to 1 (not knowing what it should be set otherwise be set to) and no change in the flicker. As I mentioned I do have v100 installed in .vim over whatever was built into the

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Lo
Hi Tom, I know you're probably sick of suggestions by now, but I have also spent a lot of time in the same boat as you. No, no, not sick of suggestions at all, getting suggestions was part of the reason I posted. In the end, I determined that the built-in file browser for vim (even in

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Lo
Thanks Matt, I did have the feeling that I could bend Vim to my old ways, but this revelation was more about realising that I wasn't using features that make Vim different from other editors. I like the fact that it's now simpler both in terms of visual clutter and use. Also, after

RE: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-20 Thread Suresh Govindachar
, 2006 7:13 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: File browsing in Vim Thanks Matt, I did have the feeling that I could bend Vim to my old ways, but this revelation was more about realising that I wasn't using features that make Vim different from other editors. I like the fact that it's now

Re: File browsing in Vim

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Lo
- From: Nick Lo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:13 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: File browsing in Vim Thanks Matt, I did have the feeling that I could bend Vim to my old ways, but this revelation was more about realising that I wasn't using features that make Vim