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
previous text editor way of thinking to suddenly get the vim way of file browsing. Hardened Vim users will not see it as anything new as it's really about the using :Ex while editing rather than assigning specific windows the role of file browser. Anyway, since it really needed an image or two

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
a frustrating evening that stretched into the night, I had one of those moments of revelation that I have a feeling all Vim users get now and again. In this case it was breaking from my previous text editor way of thinking to suddenly get the vim way of file browsing. Hardened Vim users will not see

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