Some of these tips sound interesting. For what it's worth, my typical workflow is simple - I use the mru plugin to access the 20 most recent files (a quickly searchable list), otherwise I drag the file from the Finder to the MacVim icon.
Kimo On Dec 18, 2:37 pm, "Niklas Lindström" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Here are some of my (general Vim) tips regarding buffer/file > navigation/discovery. > > I regularly populate the buffer list over time (see also :ls, :bd), > and :mksession to save my working sessions (often a huge pile of > splits and tabs). To jump to buffers, I then use the very powerful :sb > command, which intelligently matches anywhere within the file path. So > e.g.: > > :sb some<Tab> > > gives completions like: > > path/to/some/file.txt > wholesome/tips.txt > other/some > > For this, I have this in my .vimrc: > > set wildmenu > set wildmode=list:longest,full > > set switchbuf=usetab,split > > , which firstly sets up completion as *I* like it (YMMV). The > 'switchbuf' setting makes :sb jump to the file in an existing window > in any tab, and if none are open, use a split. (Compare to the default > :sb behaviour which always uses the current window.) > > I also (judiciously) use recursive-globs (**); e.g.: > > :e path-part/**/some<Tab> > > And, for e.g. refactoring, lots of: > > :vimgrep /some-regexp/j path-part/**/*.py > :copen > > (The 'j' is for *not* jumping to the first match automatically.) > > Also, if you (for instance) want to do *massive* remakes of lots of > files within a directory, I recommend: > > :cd path/to/data > :n **/*.data > > , which loads all matched files as buffers, which you can navigate > with e.g. :sb; and furthermore can be modified with stuff like :bufdo > (the once instance where I ":set hidden" if I do multiple replacements > etc. and want to inspect them prior to writing). > > [Finally, always use the vim help system if you wonder about a command > or option etc. E.g: > > :help :sb > :help :vimgrep > :help 'switchbuf' > :help 'wildmode' > :help 'hidden' > :help :wa > > and so on.] > > Best of luck and best regards, > Niklas > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Nico Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> In textmate there is the wonderful "Go to file" command which lets you > >> perform a fuzzy search on all files in the project which usually gets > >> you to open the file you want in < 1s. I don't necessarily need > >> something exactly like it, but I am very much interested in how > >> everybody in here deals with quickly opening files. > > > Depends a bit on the project. For smaller projects, I usually open all > > files in buffers when I start MacVim (`mvim *.py`, for very small > > projects `mvim -p *.py`) and then use BufExplorer to move around (the > > plugin Markus linked to can also navigate buffers, but I haven't > > really tried it yet). For larger projects, I build a cscope database > > and use that to move around (`:h cscope`). The two plugins a.vim and > > NERDTree are useful too. > > > Nico > > > ps: The LustyExplorer plugin looks similar to Jamis' plugin and might > > be easier to install. Haven't tried this one either, though. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
