Minimap

[Cryptic Swarm]

After doing some completely unrelated reading to minimaps I stumbled across a plugin called Tagbar[1] that the screenshots[2] looked intriguing and similar to the minimap view that sublime text has.  The plugin takes ctags (specifically an exuberant ctags style) and lays out an outline view of the current file.  The panel is a regular vim buffer so you can search and scroll through it as normal.  Pressing enter on any of the items jumps you to the specified tag and highlights in the outline view.  Additionally as you jump around in the main buffer the outline view will update your current location (however it seems to periodically poll for the location so it a little bit delayed).

Perhaps this can satisfy some of the minimap envy? Probably my biggest complaint in the ten minutes that I've played around with the plugin is that it, like sublime text, doesn't implement the fog of war feature.

Happy Vimming

[1] http://majutsushi.github.com/tagbar/

[2] http://majutsushi.github.com/tagbar/tagbar1.png