I like mixing the keyboard and mouse. Yes I know
set mouse=a
exists, but it provides only some basic actions. I was wondering if you could map the mouse to allow moving split window panes around - something which is painful to do by keyboard. Do you know of something like this?
What I am looking for is a way to: move left pane to right, move bottom right pane to top left corner etc.
The method I use to move windows around is similar to what I do with text – “d” the window, then “p” it elsewhere. Except the mappings are <c-w>d and <c-w>p: https://github.com/andrewradev/yankwin.vim
I doubt this plugin would be convenient to you out of the box, since for instance it doesn’t paste vertical splits, and if you have lots of windows, maybe you use a large monitor with them. I’d say you could use it as an idea at least. The core of it is as simple as this: https://github.com/AndrewRadev/vim-lectures/blob/4bb97b3a2cb27fb8542d494079ee2ffde4a49d93/snippets/03-winmove.vim
If you wanted to use the mouse, you could map <LeftMouse>, <MiddleMouse>, and <RightMouse> for it. Possibly with ctrl or some other modifier. There’s even <LeftDrag>, but I haven’t experimented with it, so I can’t say if it would be easy to implement drag & drop for windows. :help mouse-overview.
@ashwinvis @vim @neovim This _should_ work out of the box…? Does mouse dragging allow you to create a visual selection? If not, your terminal’s mouse reporting is probably not recognized correctly by (Neo)Vim, or it doesn’t report dragging at all.
@scy @ashwinvis @vim @neovim in my experience this works for *resizing* but not moving windows/panels around.
My solution to that is keyboard driven, but it’s a plugin i wrote which allows swapping the currently focused window with a different one, by typing its letter.
I only tested it on vim, not neovim, but if it’s possible to make it neovim compatible, i do welcome patches.
@tshirtman
Ooh… like a tiling window manager. I will check it out. I like the labelled popups in front of panes.
I see something similar written in Lua.
@ashwinvis @vim @neovim Oh! Now I understand. Sorry.
Good question, I don’t know of any way, but I’d be interested in finding out, too, now ;)
