t9md / vim-choosewin

Land on window you chose like tmux's 'display-pane'

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Navigate to the window you choose

This plugin aims to mimic tmux's display-pane feature, which enables you to choose a window interactively.

This plugin should be especially useful when working on high resolution displays since with wide displays you are likely to open multiple windows and moving around windows with vim is cumbersome.

This plugin simplifies window navigation with the following functionality:

1. Displays window label on statusline or middle of each window (overlay).
2. Accepts window selection from user.
3. Navigates to the specified window.

Example configuration:

" invoke with '-'
nmap  -  <Plug>(choosewin)

Optional configuration:

" if you want to use overlay feature
let g:choosewin_overlay_enable = 1

More configuration options are explained in the help file. See :help choosewin.

Default keymapings in choosewin mode

Key	Action	Description
0	tab_first	Select FIRST tab
[	tab_prev	Select PREVIOUS tab
]	tab_next	Select NEXT tab
$	tab_last	Select LAST tab
x	tab_close	Close current tab
;	win_land	Navigate to current window
-	previous	Naviage to previous window
s	swap	Swap windows #1
S	swap_stay	Swap windows but stay #1
<CR>	win_land	Navigate to current window
	<NOP>	Disable predefined keymap

*1 If you select 'swap' again, you will swap with the previous window's buffer ex) using the default keymap, typing double 's'(ss) swaps with the previous window.

Operational examples

Map - to invoke choosewin with the following command:

nmap - <Plug>(choosewin)

Move around tabs, and choose windows

First of all, open multiple windows and tabs.
Invoke choosewin by typing - in normal mode.
Then you can move around tabs by ] and [, or you cand choose the target tab directly by typing the number labeled in the tabline.
After you chose a target tab, you can choose a target window by typing the letter which is labeled in the statusline and in the middle of each window (if you have enabled the overlay feature).

Choose the previous window

Type - again to invoke choosewin, then input - again to choose the previous window. The previous window you were on before you choose the current window.

Swap windows

Type - to invoke choosewin, then type s to swap windows.
Then type the label of a window to swap content(=buffer) of that window with your current window.
After you chose, the current window's buffer is swapped with the buffer shown in the window you chose.
By combining "swap" and "previous window" features, you can easily swap any window with the previous window like so: -s-, invoking choosewin itself(-) then entering swapping mode(s), then instructing choosewin to swap the target window with the previous(-) window. Congratulations!

NERDTree open file

If working with several windows, it is useful to be able to select a specific window when open a file from inside NERDTree. As default behavior NERDTree use Vims last window, that is often not the favored one. The NERDTree_choosewin-plugin provide this feature to select a window. Furthermore if the user has installed this Choosewin plugin as well, it is able to detect this and use it instead of the default behavior.

vim-choosewin's Issues

Neovim 0.1.2: Overlay and other options stopped working

Since Neovim v0.1.2, overlay and other options stopped working. Seems that commit 79a6983c is the fault.

Neovim: Setting termguicolors on init breaks overlay

Sorry to bug you again about this, I use this plugin a lot and think it's lovely.

Neovim v0.1.4-acc5d08b introduces the termguicolors setting. In the terminal, using it on startup, makes vim-choosewin's overlay and other options to stop working.

How to use lowercase letters to select the windows?

excuse me！ how to use lowercase letters to select the windows?

NERDTree Choosewin Plugin

Hey!
I love your plugin and I wrote a really simple NERDTree extenstion which use this to open files into a selected window. In fact having this plugin installed in parallel is the advanced scenario of this extension.
Maybe you like to reference this in your description, if you like. ✌️

Undo levels not restored

When using the plugin, I find that my undo levels are not restored. So it leaves me at undolevels=-1. It also leaves me in insert mode in whichever window I jump to.

I'm assuming something fails in the undoclear method around

vim-choosewin/autoload/choosewin/overlay.vim

Line 69 in 4ac141a

noautocmd execute "normal! a \<BS>\<Esc>"

choosewin: Vim(let):E117: Unknown function: uniq

Hi, thanks for your awesome plugin!

I found a slight error that says "choosewin: Vim(let):E117: Unknown function: uniq", when starting to display window labels.
I'm not sure about vim script. But the following modify seems to work well.

autoload/choosewin/overlay.vim|161|

• let render_lines = uniq(b:choosewin.render_lines)

• let render_lines = s:_.uniq(b:choosewin.render_lines)

Please confirm it.

Option to toggle between windows

Please provide an option to toggle windows when there are only two open.

Integration with status line plugins

Is it possible to do some kind of integration with status line plugins (powerline, vim-airline, lightline, etc)? So the jump character are always shown.

Animated GIF in README is broken

The animated GIF used in the README is broken. Is there a replacement that can be used? Maybe the GIF from your website?

When choosewin is enabled by -, line wrapping is turned off

I keep line wrapping on. When I press -, line wrapping turns off in all the windows. It's very annoying and distracting.

Add swap window feature

Thank you for developping this plugin. It's awesome!

Could you add a future for swaping windows?
such as https://github.com/wesQ3/vim-windowswap

Clean-up error after trying to draw overlay on unmodifiable (terminal) buffer

Hi,
the terminal that was introduced in vim 8 apparently gives Plugins like yours a headache when they try to draw on the buffer. In the case of vim-choosewin, the error is handled kind of gracefully and switching still works, just on the terminal buffer, no overlay is drawn, and an error appears below in a non-intrusive mesage. Cheers -- that is handled better by far than the popular "easymotion" plugin.

Still, the status bars of the windows retain the "A"to"Z" markers after this error occured. some error handling or buffer type checking is needed. I am sorry to say that I don't know the first thing about it as I just started with vim.

Thanks again for the great plugin.

why nnoremap - not work

I'm curious why nmap - works but nnoremap not work

This plugin is so so awesome!!

Thanks a million!! I almost use tmux to split & swap vim instances before using this plugin.
Without this plugin, I don't want to use vim native windows at all. It's so awful for using more than two windows or tabs.

Ignore Filetype By Hook Doesn't Work

I copied the [Example] instructions from the documentation at choosewin-hook_point. For completion I copy it here:

let s:ignore_filtype = ["unite", "vimfiler", "vimshell", "nerdtree"]

let g:choosewin_hook = {}
function! g:choosewin_hook.filter_window(winnums)
   return filter(a:winnums,
	\ 'index(s:ignore_filtype,
	\   getwinvar(v:val, "&filetype")) == -1' )
endfunction

Unfortunately this does not work for me. Instead of just resource my runtime configuration, I spawn a complete new Vim instance and try it out. I opened a NerdTree window window first and than called :ChooseWin. The NerdTree window still get labeled.

Possible to have mapping to go to last window?

I'm wondering if there is a mapping where you can go to your last window. So say I have numerous splits in a complex layout and I'm going back and forth between B and D. Would it possible to have a mapping that goes to the last active window?

Swapping buffer with window from another tab does not work

Hi; great Plugin!!
I am a happy user and it's just easy going. But I did not manage to do one thing: swap buffers between windows of different tabs.

Config:

nmap  <C-w>;  <Plug>(choosewin)

• I am in tab 1, window 'A' (2 more are open in this tab)
• then I open the choosing mode C-w ;
• then go into swap mode s
• then press 2 for viewing tab 2 (red prompt "[swap] choose >" below still waiting for input )
• then press b for completing my selection of swap target "Window b in tab 2"

Result: Focus is now in Window b, tab 2, but nothing was swapped.

Add s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker link to vim-choosewin/README.md

I think that https://github.com/s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker is an alternative (implemented in Lua) of vim-choosewin.

Suggestion: add https://github.com/s1n7ax/nvim-window-picker link in https://github.com/t9md/vim-choosewin/blob/master/README.md

Not working on vim 7.2

Hi

Iam using this plugin on vim 7.2, but not working, i got error like this..

choosewin: Vim(call):E355: Unknown option: conceallevel

don't unfold all when choosewin

this is the current behavior, when use ChooseWin, code in all panes is unfolded:

this can sometimes be distracting, hope there's an option to keep all folding while showing the pane numbers.

New release

The last release is over one year ago, and I recently learned about :ChooseWinSwap command. Would be great if there would be a new release.

Best

Matthias

[Feature request] Please support choose floatwindow

Hello, Please support choose float window, thank you very much

Pressing 'Ctrl-c' should be gracefully handled

First of all. Thank you for this plugin. It's awesome and very well written. 👍

I noticed that pressing C-c (CTRL+c) causes a Vim:Interrupt message to be displayed and the statusline is not reverted back to its previous value. Pressing C-c should close choosewin and revert the statusline to its previous value.

Option to display numbers instead of letters

It would be easier to move between windows by using numbers 👍

window label on statusline each window method no longer works with Neovim global statusline" feature

Hello,

I use Neovim, since I use "global statusline" feature (enabled with laststatus = 3), I can't see anymore the window label on statusline each window.

Now, I have to necessarily to enable choosewin_overlay_enable option.

I'm not sure how this plugin should behave when global statusline feature is enabled 🤔

Best regards,
Stéphane

[Feature Request] open buffer in specified window

Hi, I would like to know if we can implement the feature that redirects newly opened buffer to a window we choose.

Vim call E117 Unknown function choose-vim#start

Using spacevim - Ubuntu on vim.

Include the option to remove trailing whitespace in README

Including the option to remove trailing spaces is essential for READMEs, as it can significantly harm user experience. Created pull request #66.

trailing white space highlighted can't disable when syn match is used

function! TrailingWS()
  highlight TrailingWS term=underline ctermbg=Red guibg=Red
  syntax match TrailingWS '\s\+$' display containedin=ALL
endf
augroup TrailingWS  
  autocmd!
  autocmd BufNew,BufRead * call TrailingWS()
augroup END

Reported in linger, can't overrule even if pass high priority to matchadd().

• One work around is provide hook and user manually disable this type of highlight
• Other work around is use char other than white space(' ') for padding such like '_'. this worked my quick hack but its affect syntax highlight so its not feasible choose.

Which key on the keyboard is '<D-s>'?

Hi,that is my question...

[Feature Request] Some way to edit the "overlay" hotkeys

I'd love to change the overlay hotkeys for windows from "A,B,C" etc. to keys in a row on the keyboard eg "Z,X,C" or "Q,W,E" etc.
I'd be happy to work on this if someone could point me in the right direction , I can't figure out where to start.

Unable to switch to window 'A'

I can't seem to be able to switch to 'A' window.
The only change I have is:

nmap F <Plug>(choosewin)
let g:choosewin_overlay_enable = 1