created by

Ethan McCreadie

script type

utility

description

This script works under CLI Vim (not gvim) and provides a curses interface for switching between / opening files simlar to TextMate's Cmd-T command.  It requires Vim to be compiled with Ruby bindings, and if you want it to keep a history, also for Ruby's sqlite3 bindings to be installed (it makes a db in your home directory, .of.db, where it stores info on recently opened files and preferred shortcuts for certain files).  To open a file called accounts_controller.php, you could simply call OF (I bind it to Alt-T) and type in ac -- a list of files under your working directory come up that have these two letters in any order.  Move up and down with arrows or ^P/^N, scroll with your mouse, or click/enter to select.  Escape gets you out.  This is a work in progress.  The code has no comments and needs to be cleaned up, but it does what I want it to for now, and maybe what you want. This may be a little slow if run from a directory with a huge amount of files.  I usually start it from the base of whatever project I'm working on.

install details

Make sure you have Ruby bindings compiled into Vim.  They are included in Ubuntu's vim-full package, and can be compiled in with the --enable-rubyinterp option for ./configure if you are compiling from source.  To check if they're working in Vim, type :ruby puts 'Hello'.   If you want a working file history, and smart reuse of the shortcuts you use, you'll also need to install Ruby, Sqlite3 and Ruby Sqlite3 bindings on your system (highly recommended, but a pain on some systems): In Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install vim-full ruby libsqlite3-ruby sqlite3  (easy as pie) Via Yum: sudo yum install ruby-devel sudo yum install sqlite3-devel sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby  (there is probably a yum package for ruby-sqlite3, but there wasn't on the machine I tested on) OS X via MacPorts: (with /opt/local/bin in your path before /usr/bin): sudo port install ruby sudo port install vim +ruby sudo port install sqlite3 sudo port install rb-rubygems sudo gem update sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby Put of.vim in your ~/.vim/plugins folder, and bind call OF() to something.  I use Alt-T (in my .vimrc): nnoremap ^[t :call OF()<CR> (type ^[t like ctrl-v, alt-t) If you need to do anything special to install it on another type of system, shoot me an email and I will post the details here.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
of.vim	0.16	2007-10-15	7.0	Ethan McCreadie	adjusted scrolling and file-list caching
of.vim	0.15	2007-10-15	7.0	Ethan McCreadie	fixed scrolling issue and some funky db saves
of.vim	0.14	2007-10-12	7.0	Ethan McCreadie	fixes
of.vim	0.13	2007-10-12	7.0	Ethan McCreadie	Allows script to function without sqlite support.  Much more fun if you have it though.
of.vim	0.12	2007-10-12	6.0	Ethan McCreadie	Accomodates for versions of sqlite that don't support CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS syntax
of.vim	0.11	2007-10-12	6.0	Ethan McCreadie	Allows for sqlite3 to come from ruby-gems, fixed minor bugs.
of.vim	0.1	2007-10-12	7.0	Ethan McCreadie	Initial upload

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