2y ago

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?

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@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.
  https://asciinema.org/a/0laV3PGpmCXkkazet0hIRf51W
  https://github.com/tshirtman/vim-winny
  
  @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.
  https://github.com/sindrets/winshift.nvim
  @scy @vim @neovim
  
  @ashwinvis @scy @vim @neovim oh the one you found seem more powerful than mine, behaving a lot more like i3wm, nice, sadly only neovim compatible, but it's nice to know it exists, panes management is really a pain point in vim when you open more than a couple of them.
- @scy
  I can select text, resize window panes - that works.
  What I am looking for is a way to:
  move left pane to right,
  move bottom right pane to top left corner etc.
  @vim @neovim
  
  @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 ;)
  
  @scy
  Indeed. Something is available in nearly every IDEs, and painfully neglected in Vim, Neovim :harold:
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