On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:48:56AM +0900, Doug Kearns wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:16:05AM +0900, Carl Youngblood wrote: > > This would probably be a departure from vi, but one thing that I've > > been longing for is an editor like Textpad or Ultraedit on windows > > that keeps a side list of all open files and allows me to bounce > > quickly between them. > > There are a number of vim plugins that provide this functionality such > as, http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=107 minibufexpl (with a few minor local changes that i made - different keybindings) is probably the best one of these. but... for all the minimal functionality it provides, it astonishes me that its *53k* of code. the core of ruvi itself is only 100k! i'd imagine a minibufexpl replacement plugin for ruvi would be around 40 to 50 lines of code maximum. the plugin could be coded now thanks to the flexibility ruby provides. maybe i'll do it some time soon in fact :) Alex -- Ummmmm ... Beeeeeeeeerrr..... - Simpson, Homer