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Peter Lustig
Peter Lustig

Reputation: 953

Maximize vim's quickfix window?

I am programming in vim and python, and use tpope's vim-dispatch to run the current file via

:Dispatch python main.py

The printed output from the program is directed into the quickfix window. Unfortunately, only the first couple of lines are visible. To see all of the output, I must resize the quickfix window manually.

My laborious workaround so far, after moving the cursor to the quickfix window, is <C-W><C-o>, which makes the quickfix window the only window visible. I then go back to my source via <C-o>.

Is there a way to toggle a specific size of the quickfix window? Alternatively: What would be a better way to navigate to the quickfix window, maximize it, and then go back to the last position in the source?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1466

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172590

The :copen command supports an optional [height] argument:

:cope[n] [height] Open a window to show the current list of errors.

                  When [height] is given, the window becomes that high
                  (if there is room).  When [height] is omitted the
                  window is made ten lines high.

If quickfix is opened by the plugin (and you cannot configure this), you could work around this via an :autocmd (as the quickfix window can be detected by its qf filetype):

:autocmd FileType qf wincmd _

Upvotes: 3

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