On May 18, 2011, at 1:09 PM, björn wrote: > On 17 May 2011 20:50, Dougly wrote: >> I'm with Sven this feature would be awesome, >> >> VIM is simply the best text editor, and discovering macvim is a >> highlight of my burgeoning mac experience. However Nerdtree is not >> really the solution I'm looking for. Ideally I'd love a VIM plugin for >> textwrangler or notepadd++ (windows program). navigating projects >> isn't as beneficial by command, but rather by mouse. >> >> Using commands to navigate in file is tremendous, it saves oodles of >> times because we do it a LOT, doing so between files is difficult, >> having to open nerdtree, navigate over, find the file (in what is not >> a very good layout) and then go back/close nerdtree is the opposite of >> efficiency, it's the dogmatic adherence to a paradigm. (obviously in >> non-gui examples nerdtree is awesome). >> >> Anyhow, it's simply a request (although not a simple request) and >> while sven and I would obviously use and appreciate it, I appreciate >> the work the authors do already and if they don't see value in the >> request I won't expect to see it added. > > Something is in the works [1]. I'm only somewhat involved in this at > the moment, but hopefully I'll get some time during the summer to work > on MacVim at which time I'll start thinking about file browsers > properly. (No, it won't be hosted in a drawer window when it is done > -- I am working on putting it in a view inside the main window.) > > To those of you who don't get the point of this feature (like I used > to): this is apparently considered one of the major missing features > for people who are coming from other editors (mostly TextMate as far > as I can tell). Judging by Twitter and blog activity this group is > quite substantial (or maybe just vocal ;-) so I feel it is worthwhile > to cater to their wishes. Hopefully this will generate even more > interest in Vim. >
My BBedit friends also miss this. The have a file browser drawer and a open files drawer. > Björn > > [1] https://github.com/alloy/macvim/commits/file-drawer > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
