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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">One Week with Tiler</h1>
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2019-01-19
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/vim/">#vim</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/plugins/">#plugins</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/tiler/">#tiler</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/tiling/">#tiling</a>
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</span>
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<p>Tiler is a tiling split manager for VIM. Here is my experience with it
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installed for one week.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>Recently I had to work with Java (instead of Python) and one thing that happens
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when you're working with Java is that you have a bunch of files open at the
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same time. Also, I do prefer to keep things in splits 'cause there is always
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some information you need to keep visible for reference. But a lot of splits
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make visibly finding stuff very <em>very</em> hard.</p>
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<p>Then suddenly, it hit me: I could use a tiling window manager and it wouldn't
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be such a mess; on the other hand, using different windows for each VIM (with
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each file) would make copying'n'pasting a hell. So if I could actually find a
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tiling <em>plugin</em>, that would give me the best of both worlds.</p>
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<p>And that's where <a href="https://github.com/zhamlin/tiler.vim">Tiler</a> gets in.</p>
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<p>Tiler is a tiling plugin for VIM. But it doesn't do anything by itself,
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meaning, it won't intercept every call to a split to do the tiling. But itadds
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new commands to manage the tiling.</p>
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<p>For example, to open a new split using the tiling, you need to use
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<code>:TilerOpen</code>. Again, Tiler won't capture every split, so you can still open
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splits with <code>:split</code> and <code>:vsplit</code>, which would break the tiling arrangements,
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so you can put everyhing back in order with <code>:TilerReorder</code>.</p>
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<p>Tiler has a layout (well, layouts, but they follow the same principle) of one
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large split for the main content and small ones for everything else. To bring
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one split to the main area, you can use <code>:TilerFocus</code>.</p>
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<p>And that's basically it.</p>
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<p>What I did was to add shortcuts to <code>:TilerReorder</code> and <code>:TilerFocus</code>. So I
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open splits like everyone else</p>
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<p><img src="https://blog.juliobiason.me/thoughts/one-week-with-tiler/tiler-no-tiling.png" alt="" /></p>
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<p>... and then using <code><leader><space></code> (the configurable leader key followed by
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space) to call <code>:TilerReorder</code> and I get a nice, tidy workspace:</p>
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<p><img src="https://blog.juliobiason.me/thoughts/one-week-with-tiler/tiler-tiling.png" alt="" /></p>
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<p>Although it may look cumbersome, my <code>leader</code> is defined to <code>space</code>, so to tidy
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up everything, all I have to do is press space twice in normal mode.</p>
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<p>Also, to help with the "focus on one thing" part, I also put a shortcut to the
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<code>:TilerFocus</code> command, with <code><leader>f</code>.</p>
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<p>And here are my bindings:</p>
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<pre data-lang="vim" style="background-color:#2b303b;color:#c0c5ce;" class="language-vim "><code class="language-vim" data-lang="vim"><span style="color:#96b5b4;">nmap </span><span><Leader>f :TilerFocus<CR>
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</span><span style="color:#96b5b4;">nmap </span><span><Leader><space> :TilerReorder<CR>
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<p>One last thing: The size of the main area is configurable, which is good,
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since I found it a bit too large. To adjust it, you can use
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<code>g:tiler#master#size</code>, which is the size of main split. I found 55% to be a
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good size, so I put</p>
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<pre data-lang="vim" style="background-color:#2b303b;color:#c0c5ce;" class="language-vim "><code class="language-vim" data-lang="vim"><span style="color:#96b5b4;">let </span><span style="color:#bf616a;">g:tiler</span><span>#master#size = </span><span style="color:#d08770;">55
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<p>And that's it. As usual, it takes some time to put the keybinds in "auto mode"
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(you know, day-to-day use), but I feel it helps a lot on actually put focus on
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some task without the cluttering of splits.</p>
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