Home » forums » Programming

Vim gripe

Submitted by Extreme on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 01:45.Programming

I love Vim as much as the next programmer, but things it sorely needs:

  1. "Command mode" random access to tabs
    This can be accomplished doing "tab number"gt
  2. The ability to *drag* tabs in to new positions.
  3. Single instance gvim window (ie/ "gvim somefile.cpp" should open somefile.cpp in to a new tab/buffer in to the currently active gvim window).
    Answered in tip 1225
  4. Smarter CTRL+W, CTRL+G, f functionality (open a file in a new tab). Currently if I do a Visual selection of:
    C:\\some\\directory\\file.cpp
    And hit the key above, Vim isn't smart enough to realize it has to canonicalize the directory delimiters.
    In fact vim does handle this, it just has a problem with certain types of IFS it seems.
add new comment