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VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

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Post by ovechtrick »

FreakyT wrote: post #52

I love this idea! I've wanted to get into MacVIM but I am just too addicted to the file browser sidebar that Sublime and Atom have. I'll have to give this a shot.

Checkout nerdtree. File browser/sidebar for Vim.

https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

#55

Post by qvacua »

fra wrote: post #48
dnerdy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! ⌘1 is what you want to focus the sidebar, and will take you back to your buffer. We're working on some improvements to the View menu.

That works! Thanks! Looking forward to the next round of improvements.

We will soon document all key shortcuts in the wiki on GitHub.

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

#57

Post by qvacua »

segphault wrote: post #27

As a MacVim user, I find this intriguing. It seems to work very well for my needs. I particularly like the built-in Markdown preview. My only gripe so far is that I'd like to be able to configure additional filtering for the fuzzy file find to, for example, make it automatically ignore node_modules folders.

Thanks. The "ignore list" for the fuzzy find will be implemented soooon.

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

#58

Post by myko »

rjzzleep wrote: post #22

For those confused, this project uses a fork of macvim that the author himself turned into a framework(osx library) to be used in third party programs. [1] (Kinda how some linux projects used xembed to embed gvim into their apps, eclim also used to have a mode to embed gvim into eclipse) Think of it as a proof of concept implementation for a vim editor based on the macvim framework version. At worst, you don't really…

This sounds really interesting. I wonder if this would be useful for a project like XVim (Vim mode for Xcode: https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim)

Re: VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X

#59

Post by SiVal »

qvacua wrote: post #54

Thank you for your comments. Please bear in mind that VimR is still very much work in progress: it's got still rough edges here and there. With your comments and feedback we will try to polish it and add new features. Stay tuned. :)

Okay, here's some feedback: you mention that you're using "real" vim, yet refer to the file browser controls as that "hjkl" thing. No app that isn't vim or isn't trying to partially resemble vim has used that obsolete "uh, down means up, so left means down" hjkl arrowkey arrangement for decades. Everyone else, all apps, spreadsheets, games, other text editors, including all standard hardware, uses an inverted-T arrangement for arrowkeys.

So, no problem, vim lets you remap your keys, which takes care of the problem. Many of us remap the "arrowkeys on the home row" to the standard inverted-T of ijkl (and remap i, for insert left, to h, reach left instead of reaching up), so that both sets of arrowkeys on the keyboard match each other and match their arrangement in every other app we use. Those with other keyboards, such as Dvorak, will often map to different keys that make more sense on their own keyboards. The ability to do so has always been one of the features of "real vi(m)".

I hope that for your file browser, you'll pass the keypresses through the (g)vimrc map, so that whatever keys a user has chosen for up, down, left, right, escape, and whatever else the file browser handles, will work the same way in both the editor and the file browser, which is to say, the way their "real vim" works.

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