On 5/9/06, Benjamin Reitzammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've searched the archive and asked many search engines for help, but
I still haven't found what I'm looking for (well, I'll stop the
humming, singing instantly ;)
Currently I switch between jEdit and vim on a hourly basis, depending
on the machine I'm working. I really love vim and would like to use it
exclusively, but until now there's one major thing missing for me,
that I couldn't find. "Find filenames as you type, and open them
instantly" .... or explained in more detail ...
In jEdit there's a plugin called Openit
(http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?OpenIt) which let's me configure a
number of directories. It then indexes the filenames contained in
these directories. Then it gives me the opportunity to search through
all the indexed filenames very, very quickly, and opening a found
file. Combined with fast typing, knowing the names of your files, and
a shortcut for opening the searching window, this is awesome.
I've uploaded a screenshot to better convey what I mean. It's at
http://nur-eine-i.de/openit_screenshot.png
Now my question:
Is there something similar for vim? Or do you guys have any hacks,
shell scripts for achieving this? Pressing a key combination, typing
in some letters, hitting enter and you opened another file?
Looks like useful functionality. It would be possible to write such
plugin [for vim], but difficult. To get 'incremental completion menu'
working, I'm afraid we need something like Eric's GetChar event.
Benjamin, how jEdit plugin refreshes the filenames index;
manually, or automatically ?
Regarding :find. It does not do &path-full completion, and
no 'incremental completion menu'. To write such plugin, you'd
need to process every typed character.
Yakov
