LustyExplorer : Dynamic filesystem and buffer explorer

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package script version date Vim version user release notes

lusty-explorer-5.0.zip 5.0 2018-07-25 7.0 Stephen Bach Many minor fixes over the last six years.

lusty-explorer.vim 4.3 2012-02-25 7.0 Stephen Bach - Fixed some quoting bugs when invoking :LustyFilesystemExplorerStart. (Joel D. Elkins)

- Handle directory security restrictions in Windows more gracefully. (Joel D. Elkins)

- Hide "relativenumber" display in the explorer. (Göran Gustafsson)

lusty-explorer.vim 4.2 2011-11-25 7.0 Stephen Bach - Added arrow key navigation. (Giuseppe Rota)

- Fixed an "incompatible character encodings" error. (lilydjwg)

- Fixed a divide-by-zero error. (Toby O'Connell)

- Added g:LustyExplorerDefaultMappings configuration. (Göran Gustafsson)

lusty-explorer.vim 4.1 2011-04-29 7.0 Stephen Bach - Add Ctrl-B and Ctrl-F mappings to move to the next/previous column. (Thanks to lilydjwg)

- Allow exploring starting at arbitrary paths - :LustyFilesystemExplorer now accepts a path argument. (Thanks to Donald Curtis)

- Prevent unwanted highlighting in the display buffer. (Thanks to Jan Zwiener)

- Fix opening files with '%' in their names. (Thanks to lilydjwg)

lusty-explorer.vim 4.0 2010-12-17 7.0 Stephen Bach - New and improved fuzzy matching algorithm: Mercury. (Matt Tolton)

- Buffer Explorer: don't show unlisted buffers. (Thanks to Johannes Holzfuß)

- Align multi-byte CJK characters correctly in filenames. (Thanks to lilydjwg)

- Truncate prompt if longer than window width to avoid "press any key" message. (Thanks to Martin Wache)

- Save/restore window config better. (Thanks to robquant)

lusty-explorer.vim 3.1.1 2010-07-21 7.0 Stephen Bach Don't throw an error when looking up special non-file buffers. (Thanks to Ben Boeckel)

lusty-explorer.vim 3.1.0 2010-06-28 7.0 Stephen Bach - Buffer grep: performance improvement.

- Buffer explorer: secondary sort by most-recently used.

lusty-explorer.vim 3.0 2010-06-26 7.0 Stephen Bach - New :LustyBufferGrep for searching through open buffers.

- Filesystem explorer: fixed a directory recursion highlighting bug.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.3.0 2010-03-28 7.0 Stephen Bach - Better matches window layout algorithm.

- Put code in its own namespace to play nicer with other Ruby plugins.

- Don't error when run in read-only mode. (Thanks to Ali Asad Lotia)

- Don't error if a file is treated as a dir.

- Don't error when a single-quote is typed.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.2.3 2010-03-27 7.0 Stephen Bach Cygwin and Windows compatibility fixes. (Thanks to Brett DiFrischia)

- Warn if &compatible mode is set.

- Windows: show matches when at root (i.e. C:/).

- Cygwin: workaround some missing POSIX stuff.

- Cygwin: don't freeze when exploring root (weird Ruby bug).

lusty-explorer.vim 2.2.2 2010-03-26 7.0 Stephen Bach Buffer explorer: fixed a spurious error message introduced in the previous release. (Thanks to sowill)

lusty-explorer.vim 2.2.0 2010-03-15 7.0 Stephen Bach - New keys: C-o -> open in horizontal split, C-v -> open in vertical split. (Thanks to David Brown)

- Fix environment variable expansion.

- Rename launch commands, e.g. BufferExplorer -> LustyBufferExplorer.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.1.3 2010-03-04 7.0 Stephen Bach Fix an error message on some platforms introduced in the previous release. (Thanks to sowill)

lusty-explorer.vim 2.1.2 2010-03-03 7.0 Stephen Bach - Fix performance over NFS.

- Fix portability with the updated Vim->Ruby data type conversion in devhead Vim. (Thanks to Björn Winckler)

- Fix portability with Ruby 1.9.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.1.1 2009-10-13 7.0 Stephen Bach - Open files using relative paths for better readability in e.g. :ls. (Thanks to Bernhard Walle)

- Warn when fuzzyfinder_textmate is detected -- this plugin interacts poorly with LustyExplorer. (Thanks to Charl Matthee)

- Fix a minor highlighting bug.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.1.0 2009-06-10 7.0 Stephen Bach - Significant performance increase for directories with many files.

- Lower memory usage in directory memoization.

lusty-explorer.vim 2.0 2009-05-28 7.0 Stephen Bach The vast majority of these changes were contributed by Matt Tolton:

- Flex/fuzzy matching using the LiquidMetal algorithm:

<http://github.com/rmm5t/liquidmetal/tree/master>

- Buffer explorer: paths are hidden except to differentiate buffers of

the same basename.

- New option:

g:LustyExplorerAlwaysShowDotFiles

- Filesystem explorer: directory contents are memoized

- New keys for the prompt:

C-t: open selected entry in new tab

C-n: select the next entry

C-p: select the previous entry

C-w: move one directory upward at prompt

C-u: clear the prompt

- New keys specific to the filesystem explorer:

C-r: refresh directory contents

C-a: open all files in the current list

C-e: create a new file with the given name

- Cursor will "hide" correctly when a filename includes a two-column

character.

- GetLatestVimScripts compatibility.

- Faster implentation of columnize(). Thanks to Sami Samhuri.

- Fixed a declaration typo. Thanks to Simo Salminen.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.4.3 2009-02-02 7.0 Stephen Bach - Definitively fix the bug of overwritten delete registers.

- Respect the 'wildignore' variable; g:LustyExplorerFileMasks still works, but is deprecated.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.4.2 2008-08-25 7.0 Stephen Bach Restore the unnamed (default) register after using the explorer. Thanks to cho45.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.4.1 2007-11-04 7.0 Stephen Bach - When the explorer is cancelled, reset the previous buffer (b#) to the actual previous buffer.

- Fixed error when launching the explorer while editing a remote file through netrw. Thanks to Bernhard Walle.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.4.0 2007-11-01 7.0 Stephen Bach - Filesystem explorer: added g:LustyExplorerFileMasks variable to hide certain types of files.

- Filesystem explorer: speed up for directories with many files.

- Added truncation indicator if there are more entries than can be displayed.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.3.1 2007-10-26 7.0 Stephen Bach Fixed memoization bug for recursing into directories with mixed case names.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.3.0 2007-10-25 7.0 Stephen Bach - Filesystem explorer now does variable ($FOO) expansion.

- Added some memoization for noticeable speed up on older hardware.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.6 2007-10-13 7.0 Stephen Bach Added compatibility for Windows, finally. Please let me know if you have any problems.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.5 2007-10-05 7.0 Stephen Bach - Now deals correctly with unnamed buffers instead of spitting out an error. Thanks to Rajendra Badapanda.

- Buffer explorer will now launch even if only a single buffer is open.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.4 2007-09-18 7.0 Stephen Bach - Pressing <TAB> will now open a buffer/file if it is the only entry.

- If <ENTER> is pressed when there are no matching entries, a new buffer will be created with the given name.

- <C-g> now behaves like <C-c> and <ESC>.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.3 2007-06-21 7.0 Stephen Bach Added g:LustyExplorerSuppressRubyWarning option for situations where the same Vim configuration is used over multiple machines, not all of which have Ruby installed. Thanks to Bernhard Walle.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.2 2007-06-18 7.0 Stephen Bach Fixed filename truncation when sidescroll/sidescrolloff have been set. Thanks to Bernhard Walle.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.1 2007-06-05 7.0 Stephen Bach - <C-h> now interpreted as backspace. Thanks to Yuichi Tateno.

- Much improved handling of files/directories with special characters in their names.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.2.0 2007-06-02 7.0 Stephen Bach - Added :FilesystemExplorerFromHere command. Thanks to Sergey Popov.

- Added highlighting to the prompt and cursor.

- Buffer explorer: added [+] indicator to dirty buffers.

- Many small fixes.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.1.2 2007-05-30 7.0 Stephen Bach - Filesystem explorer now does tilde (~) expansion.

- Fixed some Vim error messages for special characters in filenames/input.

- Internal refactoring.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.1.1 2007-05-17 7.0 Stephen Bach Recursing into directories with capital letters in their names using case-insensitive matching has been fixed. Thanks to Raimon Grau.

lusty-explorer.vim 1.1.0 2007-05-15 7.0 Stephen Bach - Renamed from DynamicExplorer.

- Buffer explorer now orders by Most Recently Used.

- Buffer explorer now matches anywhere in name.

- Filesystem explorer highlights opened files.