Ben Fritz wrote:
On Oct 7, 8:46 am, Charles Campbell<[email protected]>
wrote:
Ben Fritz wrote:
I saw :help netrw-star and read that text to understand that netrw can
filter for files matching a pattern in a given directory.
But I cannot get it to work.
I tried: [lots of stuff...removed]
What am I doing wrong here? How am I supposed to use patterns with
netrw? And am I wrong about the filtering behavior?
:Explore */filespec : does current directory matching to determine
which, if any, of the files in the _current_ directory match your filespec
:Explore **/filespec : searches the current directory and its
subdirectories for files which match your filespec
:Explore *//pattern : searches the current directory for files which
contain a match to the pattern
:Explore **//pattern : searches the current directory and its
subdirectories for files which contain a match to the pattern
Something like :Explore */*.vim would match all *.vim files in your
current directory. :Explore **/*.vim will match all *.vim files in your
current directory and in your current subdirectories.
Another way to say this: putting path information into the filespec
won't work.
Thanks, that clears things up quite a bit.
Perhaps
:e /Users/ben/vimfiles
:Explore *.vim
will do one of the things you wanted.
Well, it at least acts in a sane way.
I do not one oddity, probably as a result of running on Windows.
:e ~/vimfiles
:Explore **/*.txt
Will allow me to jump between each *.txt file, but still shows all the
other files (ok...I'll deal). What is confusing is that I have the
following in my ~/vimfiles/doc folder:
| doc/
| | AnsiEsc.txt
| | cctree.txt
| | gundo.txt
| | hexEditor.txt
| | histwin.txt
| | LargeFile.txt
| | matchit.txt
| | RltvNmbr.txt
| | surround.txt
| | swap.txt
| | tagbar.txt
| | taglist.txt
| | tags
| | tohtml_wincp.txt
| | txtfmt.txt
First matched file is AnsiEsc.txt, then LargeFile.txt, then
RltvNmbr.txt (still around for when I use older Vims on a solaris
server we have at work), and only then does it go to cctree.txt,
gundo.txt, etc.
I.e. the navigation with<S-Down>/<S-Up> and/or :Nexplore :Pexplore
(thanks for displaying those mappings, by the way) goes in case-
sensitive order, whereas the sort order in the directory listing is in
case-insensitive order.
I suspect that the case insensitivity thing is a Windows oddity;
:Nexplore and :Pexplore work in the same sequence as files are displayed
in my testing under linux (capitalized files display before
non-capitalized files).
Now that I know why what I was trying will NOT work, I'm curious: is
there actually a way to filter a view to show only files matching a
given pattern?
Not currently with netrw; however, the selected files should be
highlighted with
exe "2match netrwMarkFile /".s:explore_match."/"
ie. does 2match work with your setup? I know that there was one
complaint that files weren't visually made apparent; that was due to the
gentleman's never having had syntax highlighting enabled (which seems to
also disable :match, :2match, etc).
I started this investigation while looking to improve
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Searching_for_files_in_a_directory_listing
to mention the tasks one could already accomplish with no custom
scripts. I had thought netrw could accomplish a lot of this, I now
believe this may have been incorrect.
Well, netrw does support the notion of "hiding" (see :help
netrw-hiding). However, I don't have :Explore's "star" patterns tied
into hiding (they're not tied into the marked-files, either -- that's a
change I've considered making recently).
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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