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I have been bothered by my navigation lately. I want to love marks, but I
don't, probably my fault. I don't like using fuzzy finders consistently. I
feel like its an anti-pattern. :e is worse. Alternate file is amazing, but
only works with 1 file. This is literally what it sounds like. It allows
jumping back up to two files.
- Vim
- Coconut Oil
- Bouncy Ball Chair
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Plug 'ThePrimeagen/af-pluth-pluth'I use a Kinesis Advantage 2 so the arrow keys are simple to get to. Therefore I do the following keys
" This replaces the usage of <C-^> for me
" You really don't have to do this, it just works better if you also use pluth
" pluth.
nnoremap <C-Left> :call AfPPAlternate()
" This allows for the retrieval of 2 files ago
nnoremap <C-Up> :call AfPPAlternatePluthPluth()I am trying to come up with some better ways to navigate since I cannot stand my current experience. I want something where I press a key and it goes where I want. Marks seem to be the most promising, just haven't found my jam yet with them.
It works when you use <C-^>, but it messes up the state a bit which does hurt
my feels. This is why I have 2 functions available (example below).
Lets say you have the following 3 files opened, a, b, and c in that order.
If you were to spam <C-^> you would swap back and forth between a and b.
The same would happen if you :call AfPPAlternate(). If you were to call
:call AfPPAlternatePluthPluth() you would go to c from a. If you call it
multiple times you go back and forth between a and c. But this means your
alternate file becomes a (or c depending on your current file) which means
you lose access to b. But if you use :call AfPPAlternate() it will
actually get b. This allows for you to actually swap back and forth between
1 and 3 and 1 and 2. It keeps state. If you manually navigate it will reset
the state.
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