Files

I use netrw a fair bit mainly because of Tim Pope’s vinegar.vim plugin. I press - to see a list of files in the current directory, and then navigate around using Vim shortcuts and search. You can open netrw in a similar way without installing vinegar.vim, just type :e . and you'll see a…

Area 51 Vim Stack Exchange is Back

There was a Vim Stack Exchange experiment last year, and then it was closed despite receiving the…

vim-lastplace (GitHub: dietsche/vim-lastplace, License: MIT) records the last line you were on when you reopen a file. It can ignore certain files, which means you won’t get issues when making Git commits. The ignored files are configurable with g:lastplace_ignore.

DidYouMean.vim (GitHub: EinfachToll/DidYouMean, License: MIT) by Daniel Schemala is a small plugin that prompts for the correct filename instead of opening a new file. It’s ideal if you often type a partial filename, press tab, then accidentally open a new file because multiple filenames matched.

gtfo.vim (License: Vim) by Justin M. Keyes is a plugin for opening a file manager or terminal at the current file’s directory. In Normal mode, you can type gof to open the file manager, or got to open the terminal. The mnemonic…

Earlier this year I was at a Vim London meetup, and I was saying to Drew Neil that I didn’t think file browsers were idiomatic. I’ve used NERD tree on and off, but sometimes I wonder if just getting used to netrw would be better.