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Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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`:bdel` is what you're looking for. ;-)

Problem with ":bd" or ":bdel" is that it leaves open the last tab: 1) in the shell run "vim ." 2) hit "t" on a file 3) type ":bdel " The tab is still open.

":bdel|q" would do the trick, then.

But I understand it's not a very good solution.

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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When you write `:ls` you see all the buffers, not tabs. To remove the buffer you can use `:bd :bdel :bdelete` (see `:help :bdel`) which unloads a buffer and deletes it from the bugger list.

Sure. But I want to close the buffer AND the tab. :bd only closes the tab if there are multiple tabs open. It does not close the tab when its the last tab before the file explorer: 1) in the shell run "vim ." 2) hit "t" on a file 3) type ":bd " You still have 2 tabs open. One with the file explorer and one with an empty file. Probably because the file explorer has type "nofile" or something, so vim things the buffer…

Yes, see my other answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187723

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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I love the negativity in many of the responses here. Obviously people like native apps. Macvim is a thing. Emacs has a gui version for os x. Sublime is a thing. This is a polished port of macvim that has a file drawer, which is a feature that many people want baked into macvim. Browsing complex file hierarchies and large projects isn't great inside a terminal, and is a giant hurdle for many new users of vim. If this…

Hope you don't mind poolpool but I quoted you in a quick writeup I made of VimR.

http://tosbourn.com/vimr-first-look/

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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On one hand, I really want to leave a constructive comment, but on the other, I don't think that I should use it first for a few days (and judging by my first impressions, coming from macvim, I definitely will). By the way, did all the haters test it thoroughly?

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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Hey, there are some great things in here. I've used it for a bit this morning, and have a couple of comments: 1. I could not figure out how to change the font. I'd love a smaller font. 2. The "show" and "hide" side bar shortcuts should be merged into a single "toggle" shortcut 3. Generally, shortcuts should be more vim-y. If I wanted to do cmd + } I would be using emacs :) 4. could not find a keyboard shortcut to cha…

Re #1, I don't know what config it uses but `:set guifont=*` will give you a font picker (as in any guivim, afaik).

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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As an avid MacVim user, I'm really interested in people pushing the graphical vim experience on Mac OS X. I find it interesting that you included a fuzzy quick-open. One of the pain points with CtrlP in a large project - even with fast hardware - is the synchronous building of its filesystem cache. I would be interested in trying another implementation that lives inside of an app (where it can be dispatched asynchron…

Ctrl-p is great but I agree, lack of caching is a signigicant pain point. I raised an issue on that and the author explained it's because there's actually no mechanism for Vimscript to do it, so someone would probably need to come up with some way to spawn headless Vim from a periodic Cronjob. A standalone app like VimR can also route around this constraint.

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim/issues/222

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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Hey, there are some great things in here. I've used it for a bit this morning, and have a couple of comments: 1. I could not figure out how to change the font. I'd love a smaller font. 2. The "show" and "hide" side bar shortcuts should be merged into a single "toggle" shortcut 3. Generally, shortcuts should be more vim-y. If I wanted to do cmd + } I would be using emacs :) 4. could not find a keyboard shortcut to cha…

@3, you can always use gt/gT to switch tabs :)

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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Did you even use it?

I can't ask questions if I haven't used it? I have no interest of trying this out since it's mac exclusive.

You didn't ask a question. You suggested that the author's effort was misguided for an application you didn't even use.
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