Intro
I have always wanted to get my vim oldfiles (the most recent accessed files on vim/nvim) directly from my shell. Of course, in vim you can do:
:bro[wse] o[ldfiles][!]
But I wanted something different, and today I figured it out, of course, with some help, see references, an elegant way to solve this issue:
function old(){
[[ -f /tmp/oldfiles.txt ]] && \rm /tmp/oldfiles.txt
vim -c 'redir >> /tmp/oldfiles.txt | silent oldfiles | redir end | q'
local fname
FILES=()
for i in $(awk '!/man:/ {print $2}' /tmp/oldfiles.txt); do
[[ -f $i ]] && FILES+=($i)
done
fname=$(printf "%s\n" "${FILES[@]}" | awk '!a[$0]++' | fzf) || return
vim "$fname"
}
Generating a list of oldfiles
vim -c 'redir >> /tmp/oldfiles.txt | silent oldfiles | redir end | q'
To make sure the list is always updated I also have this test:
[[ -f /tmp/oldfiles.txt ]] && \rm /tmp/oldfiles.txt
If the file exists we remove it
Creating a variable so we can send a file name to the FZF
local fname
Creating an array to store the full list of v:oldfiles content
FILES=()
Filtering the file list
for i in $(awk '!/man:/ {print $2}' /tmp/oldfiles.txt); do
[[ -f $i ]] && FILES+=($i)
done
fname=$(printf "%s\n" "${FILES[@]}" | awk '!a[$0]++' | fzf) || return
In the awk command we restrict our awk filtering getting rid of any manpage we have accessed !/man:/. Then we test if the item is a file [[ -f $i ]] and add them to the our arry FILES with FILES+=($i).
Passing an array to FZF in separate lines
printf "%s\n" "${FILES[@]}"
Removing duplicated entries
awk '!a[$0]++'
Bu if we give up our search?
|| return
Keybind (zsh) to easily call this function:
# Ctrl-Alt-o
bindkey -s '^[^O' 'old^M'
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