On Oct 7, 8:46 am, Charles Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben Fritz wrote: > > I saw :help netrw-star and read that text to understand that netrw can > > filter for files matching a pattern in a given directory. > > > But I cannot get it to work. > > > I tried: [lots of stuff...removed] > > > What am I doing wrong here? How am I supposed to use patterns with > > netrw? And am I wrong about the filtering behavior? > > :Explore */filespec : does current directory matching to determine > which, if any, of the files in the _current_ directory match your filespec > :Explore **/filespec : searches the current directory and its > subdirectories for files which match your filespec > :Explore *//pattern : searches the current directory for files which > contain a match to the pattern > :Explore **//pattern : searches the current directory and its > subdirectories for files which contain a match to the pattern > > Something like :Explore */*.vim would match all *.vim files in your > current directory. :Explore **/*.vim will match all *.vim files in your > current directory and in your current subdirectories. > > Another way to say this: putting path information into the filespec > won't work. >
Thanks, that clears things up quite a bit. > Perhaps > > :e /Users/ben/vimfiles > :Explore *.vim > > will do one of the things you wanted. Well, it at least acts in a sane way. I do not one oddity, probably as a result of running on Windows. :e ~/vimfiles :Explore **/*.txt Will allow me to jump between each *.txt file, but still shows all the other files (ok...I'll deal). What is confusing is that I have the following in my ~/vimfiles/doc folder: | doc/ | | AnsiEsc.txt | | cctree.txt | | gundo.txt | | hexEditor.txt | | histwin.txt | | LargeFile.txt | | matchit.txt | | RltvNmbr.txt | | surround.txt | | swap.txt | | tagbar.txt | | taglist.txt | | tags | | tohtml_wincp.txt | | txtfmt.txt First matched file is AnsiEsc.txt, then LargeFile.txt, then RltvNmbr.txt (still around for when I use older Vims on a solaris server we have at work), and only then does it go to cctree.txt, gundo.txt, etc. I.e. the navigation with <S-Down>/<S-Up> and/or :Nexplore :Pexplore (thanks for displaying those mappings, by the way) goes in case- sensitive order, whereas the sort order in the directory listing is in case-insensitive order. Now that I know why what I was trying will NOT work, I'm curious: is there actually a way to filter a view to show only files matching a given pattern? I started this investigation while looking to improve http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Searching_for_files_in_a_directory_listing to mention the tasks one could already accomplish with no custom scripts. I had thought netrw could accomplish a lot of this, I now believe this may have been incorrect. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
