Re: using mac drawers to display a directory

While I do agree that it would be unfortunate to diverge from standard
Vim, this would be really good to have. I don't have the list in my
head, but this shouldn't be too far from some item in the wishlist for
future Vim.

Just for completeness, how about something like:

   :browsepanel <path>

Which would open "something" from which one could select files. A
"select" (double-click) would call ":e <path>" if path is a file, else
expand tree (use ":browsepanel <otherpath>" for switching dir).
Finally, ":browsepanel" w/o arg would close/toggle it.

Just off the top of my head, since I really like the idea.. (Though
this may lead to the slippery slope of IDE-like complexities I guess.
And then there will be the "how to work netrw into this". Still, we've
had ":browse" for years now..)

Best regards,
Niklas



On 3/25/07, Nicolas Weber <nicolasweber-Mmb7MZpHnFY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I really appreciate the drawer functionality for organizing the tabs
> > in macvim. I was wondering if it would be possible to tweak the drawer
> > to display the contents of a certain directory in a tree view?
>
> everything is possible :-P We shouldn't diverge too much from
> standard vim though, I guess...
>
> > There are probably more pressing things to implement, so even if
> > someone
> > could point me to the appropriate source code file, it would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> The source file is vim-root/src/gui_mac.c, the tab stuff is at the
> bottom (provided you already applied the tabs patch :-P).
>
> HTH,
> Nico