/dwm.vim

Tiled Window Management for Vim

Primary LanguageVim Script

dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim

dwm.vim adds tiled window management capabilities to Vim. It is highly inspired by dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) tiled layout management.

Download page on vim.org: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4186

Windows are always organised as follows:

===================================
|              |        S1        | 
|              |===================
|      M       |        S2        | 
|              |===================
|              |        S3        | 
===================================

Use the following commands to create, browse and close windows:

  • CTRL-N Creates a new window and place it in the area [M] & stacks all previous windows in the [S] areas.
  • CTRL-C Close the current window if no unsaved changes
  • CTRL-J Jumps to next window (clockwise)
  • CTRL-K Jumps to previous window (anti-clockwise)
  • CTRL-H Focus the current window, that is, place it in the [M] area & stacks all other windows in the [S] areas

ScreenShot

Remarks

There is only one tiled layout available right now, but do not hesitate to fork it!

For fun, I urge you to try using dwm.vim in vim, in tmux, in ssh, in tmux, in xterm, in dwm.

Thanks luriel for this awesome comment on the HN post related to dwn.vim:

As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heavily inspired by Rob Pike's Acme editing environment ( http://acme.cat-v.org ). So in a way we have gone full circle, from text editor, to window managers, back to text editor. That said, I still prefer Acme to vim, but would be really cool if somebody added mouse chording to vim :)

Contributors

@dsapala (Dan Sapala)