Renaming open files

[Gabriel Gilder]

Hey all,

Last meetup I recall we discussed the lack of a good way to rename (and reopen) a file in vim. Well, I looked around today, found one plugin that worked, but not quite to my satisfaction, and decided to just write my own:

https://github.com/ggilder/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/plugin/rename.vim

Hope you find it useful!

-Gabriel

[Dan Croak]

Just gave it a shot: it works! Nice job.

General question about organization: I've been tossing everything in my vimrc. I'd like to better organize some of the functions in particular. I noticed you put this in vim/plugins. Does anyone have advice on organizing vimscript? Maybe a link to a resource on loading plugins?

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[Gabriel Gilder]

Good question, I've been wondering about that myself but haven't actually written that much vimscript. Seems like vim/plugins works fine for lightweight little scripts.

[Sascha Faun Winter]

Gary Bernhardt takes a slightly different approach:

https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc#L159-L168

Faun

[Gabriel Gilder]

Seems to work ok but it does leave the old file still open in a buffer, which I wanted to avoid.

[Faun Winter]

The invocation bit is nice: leader-n pre-populates the name of the current file. Just snatch that line, since the function names and the arguments are the same. 

Faun

[Sascha Faun Winter]

I made the changes mentioned below.

Call rename with leader-n or :Rename and it pre-populates the current filename.

https://github.com/faun/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/plugin/rename.vim

Faun