Switching between buffers (most recently used buffer list)
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As a long time VStudio user I've found it hard to figure out the best
way to switch from the current buffer to a previously worked on
buffer. VStudio keeps a history list of the most recently used buffers
and hitting ctrl-tab moves to the previous buffer in that list. For
example if I have 3 buffers, A B and C open and the * in the following
(A*,B,C) denotes the buffer that has the input focus then hitting ctrl-
tab will rearange the list to look like: B*, A,C. This makes it easy
to use ctrl-tab to alternate between A and B. If I want to view C I
hit ctrl-tab twice and the list is now C*,B,A. This most recently used
list is very useful because I tend to work with the same set of
buffers for a period of time and it lets me quickly move between them.
The jumplists almost do this but they also record points within the
same buffer, which makes them awkward to use. :bn and :bp don't do
what VStudio does (although initially I thought they might). The
closest thing I've found that matches VStudio's buffer history
behavior is ctrl-^ which is the 'alternate' file except that this
isn't the same as a most recently used history list that VStudio
implements.
Charles E. Campbell, Jr.
(Most Recently Used Files):
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=521
Regards,
Chip Campbell
John Beckett
> As a long time VStudio user I've found it hard to figure out
> the best way to switch from the current buffer to a
> previously worked on buffer. VStudio keeps a history list of
> the most recently used buffers and hitting ctrl-tab moves to
> the previous buffer in that list.
Try the info in this tip:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching
People who are not used to Visual Studio have no idea how clever that Ctrl-Tab stuff
is. I've never seen a decent implementation in Vim, but once you've got on top of
the above tip you probably will be ok.
John
Richard Hartmann
> People who are not used to Visual Studio have no idea how clever that Ctrl-Tab stuff
> is. I've never seen a decent implementation in Vim, but once you've got on top of
> the above tip you probably will be ok.
Actually, the 'alt-foo affects windows, ctrl-foo affects sub-windows'
thing has been
in Windows since at least 3.1. I agree that this is one of the few
things they did
right :)
KDE uses CTRL-TAB for managing virtual desktops btw, so you can not use that
hint with default settings.
Richard
Andy Wokula
Anton Sharonov
2008/8/18, Andy Wokula <anw...@yahoo.de>:
Tim Harper
sweet action.
Tim
Anton Sharonov
must say it is really convenient.
But there is always some room for improvements, isn't it ? :)
Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the buffer
name in the status line, it would be great to really switch the
buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster depends on how
this buffer looks like - to stay in it or to switch further.
Buffer name in status line is a bit hard IMO to concentrate on it
enough to quickly decide, either this is a proper buffer, which I
need... What is the opinion of another bufmru.vim users about
that ?
And thanks one more time for the excellent plugin, Andy :)
Anton.
2008/8/18, Tim Harper <timch...@gmail.com>:
Richard Hartmann
> Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the buffer
> name in the status line, it would be great to really switch the
> buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster depends on how
> this buffer looks like - to stay in it or to switch further.
Sounds like a good idea. But does this scale with large files
and/or complex highlighting (if that is redone), etc?
I honestly don't know, as the maximum I use Vim for in this
regard is splitting. Everything else, I do with either screen
or Konsole tabs. (Well, I sometimes update a few files at
once, but :wn is the extent of what I use ;)
Richard
Anton Sharonov
am Donnerstag, 06. November 2008 um 10:39 schrieben Sie:
>> Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the buffer
>> name in the status line, it would be great to really switch the
>> buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster depends on how
>> this buffer looks like - to stay in it or to switch further.
> Sounds like a good idea. But does this scale with large files
> and/or complex highlighting (if that is redone), etc?
> I honestly don't know, as the maximum I use Vim for in this
> regard is splitting. Everything else, I do with either screen
> or Konsole tabs. (Well, I sometimes update a few files at
> once, but :wn is the extent of what I use ;)
I have already made a patch for this displaying buffers, but not yet
adopted to "unpublished" new version of bufmru.vim from Andy.
--
Anton
Anton Sharonov
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > As a long time VStudio user I've found it hard to figure
> > > > out the best way to switch from the current buffer to a
> > > > previously worked on buffer. VStudio keeps a history list
> > > > of the most recently used buffers and hitting ctrl-tab
> > > > moves to the previous buffer in that list. For example if
> > > > I have 3 buffers, A B and C open and the * in the
> > > > following (A*,B,C) denotes the buffer that has the input
> > > > focus then hitting ctrl- tab will rearange the list to
> > > > look like: B*, A,C. This makes it easy to use ctrl-tab to
> > > > alternate between A and B. If I want to view C I hit
> > > > ctrl-tab twice and the list is now C*,B,A. This most
> > > > recently used list is very useful because I tend to work
> > > > with the same set of buffers for a period of time and it
> > > > lets me quickly move between them. The jumplists almost
> > > > do this but they also record points within the same
> > > > buffer, which makes them awkward to use. :bn and :bp
> > > > don't do what VStudio does (although initially I thought
> > > > they might). The closest thing I've found that matches
> > > > VStudio's buffer history behavior is ctrl-^ which is the
> > > > 'alternate' file except that this isn't the same as a
> > > > most recently used history list that VStudio implements.
> > >
> >
> > > My suggestion:
> > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2346
>
> Anton Sharonov wrote:
> > Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the
> > buffer name in the status line, it would be great to really
> > switch the buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster
> > depends on how this buffer looks like - to stay in it or to
> > switch further.
For those who is interested, new version of bufmru.vim [1] is
published by Andy. It's now allows to switch buffers "visually"
if g:bufmru_splashbufs is set to 1.
--
Anton
[1] bufmru.vim by Andy Wokula
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2346