On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Charles Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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).
Yeah, they show in bold...but only in the current directory. I normally have my netrw list format set to a tree view, so stuff in the parent directory also shows up, but is not highlighted. >> >> 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). > This looks promising, but again only seems to apply to the current directory, not the parent, which is also showing in the tree view. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
