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 vim 7) doesn't work very
well
as a "file browser window" like you displayed in your blog.
For me, a very good solution to your needs it the Project plugin:
<http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69>
There's a slight learning curve to use it, but it has the following
advantages:
* You don't have to type some funky command to open a file in the
"edit"
window. You just move your cursor over the file name and hit return.
* You can explicitly specify the pwd of a list of files, even if those
files are in different directories. This can be very useful.
* You can define which files are present in the Project window in an
arbitrary way.
* This basically gives you a project-based view of your files, similar
to what you would see in an IDE like Eclipse.
* Just trust me when I say that it's a terribly useful and robust
plugin
enables you to do exactly what you want :)
If you would like to see a screenshot of what my setup looks like,
then
check out the following:
* <http://static.flickr.com/61/171982939_c636495ffc.jpg?v=0>
Good luck, and have fun learning about what you can do with Vim
Thanks for that run through. I had looked at it on vim.org and I used
to work with something similar in jEdit. For now I'm going to try out
the method of using :Ex (and :find now thanks to Suresh) where needed
and see how I go with that.
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.
Nick
