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cola
cola

Reputation: 12466

VIM: How can i open a file at right side as vsplit from a left side NerdTree panel?

I installed NerdTree plugin.

How can i open a file at right side as vsplit from a left side NerdTree panel ?

Upvotes: 92

Views: 55818

Answers (4)

CloudEmber
CloudEmber

Reputation: 99

Not sure if anyone else is still struggling with this, but here's how I dealt with it.

You can use 

:ls

to list the available buffers. Which would look something like: 

1 "foo.txt"
2 "blame_the_user.java"

:b1 to select foo.txt

:b2 for blame_the_user.java

This method can be done from any window setup using :sp or :vs.

Open the buffers you want to split first.

Upvotes: 4

grimgav
grimgav

Reputation: 1421

There's a s command, but it opens a file split to the left of current buffer. Though you can press Ctrl+W r to swap windows then.

Upvotes: 94

Ben Kushigian
Ben Kushigian

Reputation: 295

This is a bit of a hack, but how I do it is this:

  1. Put cursor in window I want to open file into
  2. Hit <leader>n<leader>n (this closes NERDtree and then opens it again with the cursor in NERDtree)
  3. Select the file

On my system this opens it on the last window I was just on if the file isn't already open on my screen. Start in the window you want to open your file in

Start in the window you want to open your file into.

After <code><leader>n<leader>n</code> you will be back in NERDTree

Hit <leader>n<leader>n to close and reopen NERDTree

Select the file you want to open!

Select the file you want!

A quick C-w = will get your windows back to proper proportions.

Upvotes: 4

Prince Goulash
Prince Goulash

Reputation: 15715

To make vsplit put the new buffer on the right of the current buffer:

set splitright

Similarly, to make split put the new buffer below the current buffer:

set splitbelow

I haven't tried this with NerdTree, however.

Upvotes: 176

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