diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 9c6f02b..5ddbfee 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -1,3 +1,44 @@ Welcome to the NERDTree Wiki! -Feel free to contribute any tips you have learned while using NERDTree. \ No newline at end of file +Feel free to contribute any tips you have learned while using NERDTree. + +# Starting NERDTree +## Suppress starting NERDTree if this is a quickfix + +### Background + +I noticed that some of the snippets used `if &buftype != 'quickfix' lalala`, but for some reason, this doesn't work. Even `:set buftype?` after starting a quickfix (`vim -q errorfile`), it didn't return a value. + +So I nosed around and found this construct, which gets us a list of command line options -- and the next line, which is 0 or 1 depending on whether `-q` was thrown on the command line: + +```vimscript +let s:options = split(system("ps -o command= -p " . getpid())) +let s:q_opt = count(s:options, '-q') +``` + +### Quickfix and NERDTree + +So if you start vim with any of the usual snippets of code, but enter quickfix mode: `vim -q errorfile`, you wind up with: + +* the error file as requested +* NERDTree started, which for quickfix operations is less desirable +* the cursor in the NERDTree, which is _really_ less than desirable +* the first error on the list missing. Sure, you can use `:cc` to get at it, but fingers are tired. + +The code to end this misery is: +```vimscript +autocmd StdinReadPre * let s:std_in=1 +" kludgy way of getting the command line: +let s:options = split(system("ps -o command= -p " . getpid())) +let s:q_opt = count(s:options, '-q') + +" Start NERDTree. If a file is specified, move the cursor to its window. +" Do not start NERDTree if this is a quickfix operation. +autocmd VimEnter * if s:q_opt == 0 | NERDTree | endif | if argc() > 0 || exists("s:std_in") | wincmd p | endif +``` + +Credits +--- +[Vimscripts: check if item in list](https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/27232/vimscripts-check-if-item-in-list) For the `count(g:foo, a:bar)` idea + +[Is it possible to access vim's command-line arguments in vimscript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10357374/is-it-possible-to-access-vims-command-line-arguments-in-vimscript) For the `split(system("ps...` idea for getting at command line options \ No newline at end of file