Question

I’m new to Vim (almost new) and have some questions.

The problem came from the following:
I have NERDTree and MiniBufExplorer plugins (I like them very much!).
I have mapped Ctrl–F to show up MiniBufExplorer window.
So when I focus on tree window, then push Ctrl–F, find a file I want and then press Enter, the resulting file opens in tree window (which was previous one). So, I want to have a window with a specific Name/ID and tell MiniBufExplorer to always open buffers there. In most cases I don’t use split windows so it would not be a problem for me to open buffers always in same window.

I have looked into manual of Vim but didn’t found any reference to window’s ID, so I wonder if there is a way to give an ID to window and then configure buffer explorer to always open buffers there.

Thanks for help in advance.

Answer 1

There is a switch to tell MiniBufExplorer to try to open files in a buffer that is modifiable (that is to say, not NERDTree):

let g:miniBufExplModSelTarget = 1

Prevent opening files inside NERDTree or MiniBuffExplorer