Vim - The file explorer • Hacker News Board

Re: Vim - The file explorer

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Post by pythonandchips » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 3:40 PM UTC

randomdrake wrote: post #7

I use the Vim file explorer all the time. The only thing I miss is having a multi-column layout when I've got a directory with a lot of files. A couple additional tips: 1) You can quickly and easily search through the files the same way you would search through code (regex included) with something like: /filename 2) You can easily jump into the Vim file explorer without the steps of opening Vim and executing a comman…

you can use i to cycle through different layouts, one of which is a multi-column layout.

Re: Vim - The file explorer

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Post by adriand » Thu, Aug 02, 2012, 3:28 AM UTC

slurgfest wrote: post #10

adriand wrote: post #2

That was excellent. I despise NERD tree but I also had no clue how to use netrw. Instead, my habit is to use the console to touch files I want created, or to create or remove directories, etc. This little screencast was quite enlightening and I'll be dropping that habit!

I am curious, what is wrong with NERD tree? I had some frustrations with netrw a while ago which caused me to drop it. I don't really use NERD tree that heavily, though.

I just found that it was an unnecessary, hard to navigate tool. I was much quicker at finding files using Command-T, or, if I didn't know where something was, just browsing the folder structure from the command line.

Re: Vim - The file explorer

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Post by gcr » Fri, Aug 03, 2012, 4:15 PM UTC

As someone with vision impairment, this is what your site looks like to me: (level of detail is approximate)

http://i.imgur.com/w2iNd.png

But when I try to enlarge the fonts, it doesn't look any better.

http://i.imgur.com/WQYPB.png

Can we, as a community, please stop using px units in our CSS? I can't help but chuckle when opening a site in elinks in a terminal makes it look far better than it does in my browser.