Questions tagged [filesystem]
questions regarding searching and navigating the filesystem
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How to escape paths for findfile() and finddir()?
I have run into an escaping problem with the path argument to findfile({name}, {path}) / finddir({name}, {path}).
In my code path is a directory, obtained via fnamemodify(<file>, ':h').
Until ...
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How long can a file be non-existent when I'm saving it in vim
When I'm using vim to edit files in a django application that is running in developer mode I sometimes encounter this crash coming from the auto-reload utility:
File "/home/zefciu/.virtualenvs/15five/...
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Alter how oldfiles are displayed
Is it possible to "preprocess" the oldfiles list so that it's easier to navigate visually?
As far as I can tell, the contents of the oldfiles list are presented as ordinary absolute paths, but with ...
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Opening recent files issue
TLDR: How can I open a file from the list of recent files without going to the end of the list to get to the prompt for file number?
In order to open recent files, I do :bro ol and then when I see ...
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Open files with “whitespace names” from within Vim with gx
I have a file, e.g. ~/abc def.mp3 that I want to open from within a Vim buffer that already contains these lines.
If there were no whitespaces in the filename, I could simply open the file with the ...
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How to refresh the oldfiles list without restarting vim?
:browse oldfiles<cr> is useful for quickly navigating to a file I've worked on recently.
Sometimes though, I want to suspend vim and do some grep or ack search and find a new file that I'm ...
