Looks good. Thanks! I will go going away for a while and won't have access to a computer, but I will try it out once I get back.
(Sorry for not replying directly to the mailing list the first time. gmail's defaults are kinda funny at times) /Erik Bergman On 2/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, Erik Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been searching for a nice way to quickly open files that may reside in > any of number of directories, similar to the "quick open" feature you find > in some other editors. One solution is to mess around with the ** and * > wildcards, but this gets terribly slow for large projects. Another > "solution" is to set the 'path' variable, but vim does not perform > completion on files opened that way. A third solution is to generate file > name tags and use :tag to jump to files, but in that case you will perform > completion on just not file names, but other tags as well. Finally, you can > open all files you need to switch between and use :b, but for obvious > reasons this isn't very practical. > [...] > Can anyone think of a better solution? Would it be possible to integrate > this feature into vim in a nice way? It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but still this is a good approximation [1] I think. I've been maintening a plugin called searchInRuntime. It provides various commands to open (or do anything else on) files that can be found in lists of directories. I often use :Hs foo.cpp -> horizontally split-open foo.cpp which is searched into &path ; If several files matches, a choice is proposed ; If the file is already opened, we jump to the window were the file is being edited :SearchInVar! $INCLUDE sp foo/bar*h -> searches all (-> bang) occurrences of foo/bar*.h into $INCLUDE and split-open the files found. We could use &path and its '**' with no problem And there are many more similar commands. All support a "smart"-completion (i.e. the completion on the first parameter of SearchInVar is made considering the parameter must be a variable, the second a command, and the others pathnames). The support of completion requires vim7. There is a documentation bundled in the archive which could be found on SF (script #229 IIRC), or on my web site at http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/ressources/ The version on my web site may be more recent. [1] I'm of course 100% subjective. :) HTH, -- Luc Hermitte http://hermitte.free.fr/vim/