Bookmarks

[TahaMagdy]

Can I select files that I open frequently and put them in a CommandT list; so that I open the CommandT list to open a file from them?!

I don't mean a list of the most recent opened file, I mean that I specifically select the files to be in that list.

How can I do that?!

[wincent]

Nothing's implemented currently but I can see two relatively straightforward ways to do this:

• One would be to implement a "favorites" or "bookmarks" scanner & finder that allowed you to specify a list of favorites somewhere (either in your .vimrc or via a config file).
• Another would be to make a variant of the most-recently-used-buffer scanner/finder: this would be most-frequently-used files, and would persist across restarts.

Finally, I think a variant on that last one — but not easy to implement — would be to allow frequently-used files to be boosted higher in results listings.

[TahaMagdy]

The fist solution is the one I think. To make "Bookmarks". How can I do that please?
You may tell me how the CommandT list read the array of files? And I'll implement it.

[wincent]

• The "scanners" are responsible for getting a list of files; there are multiple examples in this "scanners" directory.
• The "finders" are responsible for managing a scanner and providing logic for "opening" whatever the user accepts: examples are in the "finders" directory.

In your case, you'd create a new scanner to read the list of "bookmarks", and your finder would be very simple because all it has to do is instantiate the scanner; as you're dealing with files, just letting the superclass open_selection implementation handle the actual opening should be fine, as long as you're dealing with absolute paths.

Finally, you have to wire things up so that the controller knows about your finder, and the user has a Vim command that they can invoke to access your finder.

[wincent]

Given the big rewrite for v6.0.x, I'm closing all older issues as there is unlikely to be anything significant happening on the 5-x-devel branch from here on¹. Feedback issue for 6.0.x is here:

• 🆕 Command-T 6.0.0 release — compendium issue #393

Footnotes

1. Patches and PRs would be welcome, but my personal efforts are going to be directed towards main. ↩