created by

Alex Kunin

script type

utility

description

Screenshot: http://altfile.googlecode.com/files/shot1.png Project site: http://code.google.com/p/altfile/ ----- Suppose we have a project which resides in a "proj" directory. Content of that directory might look like this:   proj/classes/Class1.php   proj/classes/Class2.php   proj/classes/Namespace/Class3.php   proj/tpl/Class1.html   proj/tpl/Class2.html   proj/tpl/Namespace/Class3.html   proj/tests/Class1.phpt   proj/tests/Class2.phpt   proj/tests/Namespace/Class3.phpt Create "proj/.altfile" and put these lines inside:   class: classes/{MATCH}.php   template: tpl/{MATCH}.html   test: tests/{MATCH}.phpt Now load "proj/classes/Class1.php" and hit the hot key. Menu will appear:   class  [template]  test Now you can use it as any other wild menu: cursor keys, <CR>, <Esc>. By default previously active item is highilighted (works like Alt-Tab for Windows or Cmd-Tab for Mac OS X). So, to quickly switch between two files all you have to do is <M-Tab><CR>. Now load "proj/tpl/Class4.html" - it does not exist, and you'll get empty window. Hit <M-Tab>, select "class" and hit <CR> - VIM will create new buffer for (still non-existing) "proj/classes/Class4.php". Ta-dah! Actually, this is my main reason for creating this plugin. Note that it DOES NOT matter what is your current directory: you can cd to whatever place you want. But it DOES matter where ".altfile" is, becase patterns inside it are relative to its placement. To show visual file selector hit <F3>. Use movement/cursor keys to highlight a file; <CR> loads file; <Tab> switches between labels.

install details

Copy this file to your ~/.vim/plugin/ folder. Bind some key to AltFile_ShowMenu() and AltFile_ShowSelector():     nmap <expr> <M-Tab> AltFile_ShowMenu()     nmap <F3> :call AltFile_ShowSelector()<CR> Make sure that wildmenu is enabled:     set wildmenu

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
altfile-0.2a.zip	0.2a	2008-03-01	7.0	Alex Kunin	No more ":drop" (i.e. no more GUI dependency). File load/activation code is smarter now. Uncommented forgotten try...catch block. Removed all inline docs, added link to the project site.
altfile-0.2.zip	0.2	2008-02-26	7.0	Alex Kunin	Added visual file selector (resembles BufExplorer; also, some tricks were borrowed from source code of that really nice script).
altfile.vim	0.1e	2008-02-22	7.0	Alex Kunin	Autoload support and "write-plugin" guidelines (thanks to Thomas Link for advices). Couple of minor bugs fixed.
altfile.vim	0.1d	2008-02-19	7.0	Alex Kunin	Now wildmenu is used as "engine", so look & feel are much better now. No more numeric shortcats, however. Lots of code cleanup.
altfile.vim	0.1c	2008-02-18	7.0	Alex Kunin	Default choice now mimics Alt-Tab (Cmd-Tab for Mac users), i.e. hitting the hot key and then <CR> will cycle between last two files. Visual adjustments: current file is square brakets, and asterisk indicates default choice.
altfile.vim	0.1b	2008-02-18	7.0	Alex Kunin	If selected file is already visible in some window, the script will activate it.
altfile.vim	0.1a	2008-02-16	7.0	Alex Kunin	When GUI is available, dialog forced to be console-friendly, i.e. no GUI window is poping up.
altfile.vim	0.1	2008-02-16	7.0	Alex Kunin	Initial upload

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