On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:42:57PM EDT, Rodolfo Borges wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Type ctrl-w o to toggle between maximizing one window and restoring
> >to all. By maximizing, I mean that the current
> >window will take over the entire display, not leaving a lot of status
> >bars around.
>
> Actually, Ctrl-w o will close all other windows.
> You can't get back to them using Ctrl-w o again
>
Immediately went to check that. How stupid of me not to have tried it,
I thought. Well unfortunately all I got was an error - Ye already have
only one window.
Question:
Could this be scripted -- using the error code from the failed C-O
attempt to "restore" the previous layout?
1. When in split mode:
. Vim saves screen layout -- size, position, etc.
. Vim hides all buffers save the current one
. Vim maked the current buffer stretch to occupy entire window
2. When not in split mode:
. Vim checks whether there's is a "previous" split mode
. If so, Vim restores the previous layout
. If not, displays error message
Would be very cool, afaic ..save me having to look for and then memorize
yet another mapping.
:-)
I use :unhide N but it's usually a pain restoring the layout via C-W +
{H/J/K/L} and then having to resize the sub-windows. But then, I'm no
unhide master.
Thanks,
cga.
