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This is a mirror of http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=521
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Overview
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The Most Recently Used (MRU) plugin provides an easy access to a list of
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recently opened/edited files in Vim. This plugin automatically stores the
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file names as you open/edit them in Vim.
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This plugin will work on all the platforms where Vim is supported. This
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plugin will work in both console and GUI Vim. This version of the MRU
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plugin needs Vim 7.0 and above. If you are using an earlier version of
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Vim, then you should use an older version of the MRU plugin.
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The recently used filenames are stored in a file specified by the Vim
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MRU_File variable.
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Usage
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To list and edit files from the MRU list, you can use the ":MRU" command.
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The ":MRU" command displays the MRU file list in a temporary Vim window. If
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the MRU window is already opened, then the MRU list displayed in the window
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is refreshed.
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If you are using GUI Vim, then the names of the recently edited files are
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added to the "File->Recent Files" menu. You can select the name of a file
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from this sub-menu to edit the file.
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You can use the normal Vim commands to move around in the MRU window. You
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cannot make changes in the MRU window.
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You can select a file name to edit by pressing the <Enter> key or by double
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clicking the left mouse button on a file name. The selected file will be
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opened. If the file is already opened in a window, the cursor will be moved
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to that window. Otherwise, the file is opened in the previous window. If the
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previous window has a modified buffer or is the preview window or is used by
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some other plugin, then the file is opened in a new window.
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You can press the 'o' key to open the file name under the cursor in the
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MRU window in a new window.
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To open a file from the MRU window in read-only mode (view), press the 'v'
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key.
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To open a file from the MRU window in a new tab, press the 't' key. If the
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file is already opened in a window in the current or in another tab, then
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the cursor is moved to that tab. Otherwise, a new tab is opened.
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You can open multiple files from the MRU window by specifying a count before
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pressing '<Enter>' or 'v' or 'o' or 't'. You can also visually select
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multiple filenames and invoke the commands to open the files. Each selected
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file will be opened in a separate window or tab.
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You can press the 'u' key in the MRU window to update the file list. This is
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useful if you keep the MRU window open always.
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You can close the MRU window by pressing the 'q' key or using one of the Vim
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window commands.
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To display only files matching a pattern from the MRU list in the MRU
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window, you can specify a pattern to the ":MRU" command. For example, to
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display only file names containing "vim" in them, you can use the following
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command ":MRU vim". When you specify a partial file name and only one
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matching filename is found, then the ":MRU" command will edit that file.
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The ":MRU" command supports command-line completion of file names from
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the MRU list. You can enter a partial file name and then press <Tab>
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or <Ctrl-D> to complete or list all the matching file names. Note that
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after typing the ":MRU" command, you have to enter a space before completing
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the file names with <Tab>.
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When a file supplied to the ":MRU" command is not present in the MRU list,
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but it is a readable file, then the file will be opened (even though it is
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not present in the MRU list). This is useful if you want to open a file
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present in the same directory as a file in the MRU list. You can use the
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command-line completion of the ":MRU" command to complete the full path of a
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file and then modify the path to open another file present in the same path.
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Whenever the MRU list changes, the MRU file is updated with the latest MRU
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list. When you have multiple instances of Vim running at the same time, the
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latest MRU list will show up in all the instances of Vim.
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Configuration
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By changing the following variables you can configure the behavior of this
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plugin. Set the following variables in your .vimrc file using the 'let'
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command.
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The list of recently edited file names is stored in the file specified by the
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MRU_File variable. The default setting for this variable is
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$HOME/.vim_mru_files for Unix-like systems and $USERPROFILE/_vim_mru_files
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for MS-Windows systems. You can change this variable to point to a file by
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adding the following line to the .vimrc file:
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let MRU_File = 'd:\myhome\_vim_mru_files'
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By default, the plugin will remember the names of the last 100 used files.
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As you edit more files, old file names will be removed from the MRU list.
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You can set the 'MRU_Max_Entries' variable to remember more file names. For
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example, to remember 1000 most recently used file names, you can use
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let MRU_Max_Entries = 1000
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By default, all the edited file names will be added to the MRU list. If you
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want to exclude file names matching a list of patterns, you can set the
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MRU_Exclude_Files variable to a list of Vim regular expressions. By default,
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this variable is set to an empty string. For example, to not include files
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in the temporary (/tmp, /var/tmp and d:\temp) directories, you can set the
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MRU_Exclude_Files variable to
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let MRU_Exclude_Files = '^/tmp/.*\|^/var/tmp/.*' " For Unix
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let MRU_Exclude_Files = '^c:\\temp\\.*' " For MS-Windows
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The specified pattern should be a Vim regular expression pattern.
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If you want to add only file names matching a set of patterns to the MRU
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list, then you can set the MRU_Include_Files variable. This variable should
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be set to a Vim regular expression pattern. For example, to add only .c and
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.h files to the MRU list, you can set this variable as below:
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let MRU_Include_Files = '\.c$\|\.h$'
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By default, MRU_Include_Files is set to an empty string and all the edited
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filenames are added to the MRU list.
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The default height of the MRU window is 8. You can set the MRU_Window_Height
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variable to change the window height.
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let MRU_Window_Height = 15
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By default, when the :MRU command is invoked, the MRU list will be displayed
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in a new window. Instead, if you want the MRU plugin to reuse the current
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window, then you can set the 'MRU_Use_Current_Window' variable to one.
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let MRU_Use_Current_Window = 1
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The MRU plugin will reuse the current window. When a file name is selected,
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the file is also opened in the current window.
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When you select a file from the MRU window, the MRU window will be
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automatically closed and the selected file will be opened in the previous
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window. You can set the 'MRU_Auto_Close' variable to zero to keep the MRU
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window open.
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let MRU_Auto_Close = 0
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If you don't use the "File->Recent Files" menu and want to disable it,
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then you can set the 'MRU_Add_Menu' variable to zero. By default, the
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menu is enabled.
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let MRU_Add_Menu = 0
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If too many file names are present in the MRU list, then updating the MRU
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menu to list all the file names makes Vim slow. To avoid this, the
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MRU_Max_Menu_Entries variable controls the number of file names to show in
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the MRU menu. By default, this is set to 10. You can change this to show
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more entries in the menu.
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let MRU_Max_Menu_Entries = 20
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If many file names are present in the MRU list, then the MRU menu is split
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into sub-menus. Each sub-menu contains MRU_Max_Submenu_Entries file names.
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The default setting for this is 10. You can change this to increase the
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number of file names displayed in a single sub-menu:
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let MRU_Max_Submenu_Entries = 15
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