I don't know the status either. This was Matt's project and I was
hoping some would catch on to it but it seems to have been forgotten.
This idea of a project drawer seems to come up quite often. The only
problem here is that I have never used TextMate so I cannot even begin
to guess what's so great about this feature (which NERDTree etc. can't
handle [for the record: I don't use this plugin either, but as far as
I can tell it does pretty much the same thing]). For this reason I
don't think I am the right person to be working on such a feature.
What I am saying is this: if anybody wants this feature then
a) try to use the plugin architecture to implement it as a plugin;
this would probably require that you work on the plugin architecture
as well since it is _not_ mature. I'll merge improvements to the
plugin arch. though so your work will be appreciated (by me at the
very least).
b) fork MacVim.git and hack away without using the plugin stuff;
probably easier than (a) but I do not think I'd want to merge such
code into mainline...I'd like to relegate this type of non-essential
feature to a plugin. Remember that MacVim is still Vim (not
TextMate/Xcode/.. or an IDE) and I want to keep it that way.
I'll spell it out: I do not like option (b) but option (a) I think
would be great.
Finally, this is not a trivial task due to the difficulty in
communicating with Vim (via Distributed Objects). There may be a
quite a few pitfalls.
Good luck,
Björn
The reason why I think a project drawer would be useful is more or
less the reason why sometimes I use MacVim instead of Vim.
Rui Gonçalves
I honestly could not sum up my thoughts on this issue better than
this. Excellent points.
~Wayne
That is really neat! I never got into using NERDTree for some reason
or other but this script is immediately obvious how to use and it
feels snappy.
Thanks for the tip Matt!
Björn
> Caruso,
>
> Being more specific, "more info" and "less space" was meant as a
> font size issue. When editing files I use Monaco 12 on both MacVim
> and TextMate. When browsing my directory tree TextMate can display
> more files and dirs because of its smaller font on the drawer.
>
I have the best idea.......
Make a cocoa drawer that can hold a vim buffer...
Then we can add things like NERDTree and similar plugins to display in
the drawer.
NERDTree then can be configured to be a strict list of files that are
your project, giving you a project drawer.
Hardkrash