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vim-vinegar

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tpope / vim-vinegar

vim-vinegar

vinegar.vim: Combine with netrw to create a delicious salad dressing

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vinegar.vim: Combine with netrw to create a delicious salad dressing

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2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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city41·Dec 12, 2020

I've been using vim for a bit over a decade now. But throughout that time I bounce between actual vim and vim emulation. Lately I've been concluding emulation is better most of the time. The problem with real vim is maintaining your setup can be super painful. 95% of the time it's fine, but that 5% can really bite you. For example, this bug, https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar/issues/10, struck me out of nowhere. It was super annoying, and took some debugging and exploration to find a work around for. As you can see from the comments, it seemed to impact like 5 people, so you often don't have the advantage of a large audience pushing for fixes. In the end the bug was in vim itself, not the plugin btw. With all that said, in my humble opinion I would say start learning real vim with say vimtutor (it is possibly already installed on your m

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achine) and use vim to say edit config files or do git commits. When you are getting comfortable with the vim way of editing, switch to an emulator in your IDE. IdeaVim for the IntelliJ family is really good, that's what I use today.

In Vim Creep (2011)

fit2rule·Sep 3, 2020

>stretch over too many files With cscope as the front-end to vim, this problem rarely becomes unmanageable... especially if you get bindings set up and/or use NERDTree or better yet vim-vinegar .. https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar

In Using Vim for C++ Development

icc97·Nov 6, 2017

I agree, it's better to work with the internal tools if possible. I did install Tim Pope's vinegar plugin [0] as it adds some nice tweaks to netrw. But I've since switched to using FZF [1] and hardly use netrw anymore. [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/README.md#as-vim...

In Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins

matteeyah·Oct 7, 2017

Or https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar if you're looking for a non-drawer solution. See http://vimcasts.org/blog/2013/01/oil-and-vinegar-split-windo...

In What are your preferred text editors for each language?

icc97·Aug 9, 2017

ST3 is awesome, I switched from that to Vim. But not because I was unhappy with ST3, just because the only way to learn Vim is to dive in and use only Vim. I too didn't notice any latency in ST3 and I've spent a lot of time trying to recreate some of the things that I was very used to in ST3. Saying that though, Vim just takes lots and lots of getting used to, I liken it to learning a foreign language. Most things you just need to do the 'Vim way', for example instead of NerdTree you can just use the internal file explorer and combine it with Tim Pope's Vinegar plugin [0] (everything from Tim Pope is simply awesome). That makes opening the file explorer as easy as typing '-' and then you can bounce up directories pressing '-' again or move around the file explorer using the Vim keys. I find this just as fast as using ST's file explorer, p

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ossibly faster as it avoids the mouse. I know fuzzy finding in Vim can be improved massively using fzf but I haven't tried it yet. I'm find it really easy just to have lots of buffers open and then to type `:b [buffer name]` you only need a partial match. I've been writing lots about the things that confuse me about Vim coming from ST3 e.g. about the weirdness of tab pages (when all you need is buffers) [1]. Great plugins for Vim from a ST3 perspective are: " let Vundle manage Vundle, required Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim' " syntax checking Plugin 'vim-syntastic/syntastic' " put quotes and brackets around expressions Plugin 'tpope/vim-surround' " use [ / ] for next / previous with lots of options Plugin 'tpope/vim-unimpaired' " git Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive' " store sessions that plays nicely with Airline and PDV Plugin 'tpope/vim-obsession' " improve the file explorer Plugin 'tpope/vim-vinegar' Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized' " highlight tabs and spaces at the end of lines Plugin 'vim-scripts/cream-showinvisibles' " distraction free mode Plugin 'junegunn/goyo.vim' " autocomplete matching brackets and quotes Plugin 'Raimondi/delimitMate' " Airline seems to have an issue with my session saving " @link https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline/issues/1505 Plugin 'vim-airline/vim-airline' Plugin 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes' My reasons for using Vim were: 1. Open source 2. Cross platform (as is ST3) but also I can use it over SSH so I can take the power of my .vimrc with me 3. Programmable editing / Vim's 'feeling' [2] [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43125465/327074 [2]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/#vim-s-...

In Typing with pleasure

has2k1·May 2, 2017

Not parent, but I use Neovim and Ranger [1] filemanager and I have a shortcut to open Ranger in a split or full window from which I can browse and open a file. You can do this only because Neovim has a built-in terminal. This may end up replacing vinegar [2] as my in-VIM filemanager. [1] https://github.com/ranger/ranger [2] https://github.com/tpope/vim-vinegar

In NeoVim 0.2.0 released

tambourine_man·May 2, 2014Submission

Vinegar.vim: combine with netrw to create a delicious salad dressing

1 points · Open discussion

shawndumas·Dec 24, 2013Submission

vinegar.vim – NerdTree replacement

18 points · Open discussion