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I recently started using Vim with NERDTree. The annoying thing is when I close the buffer, NERDTree expands to fill the rest of the screen, and I have to open another file and reopen NERDTree to get it back to the old layout.
Is there a way to "lock" NERDTree in place? Ideally, closing a buffer would replace it with another buffer that's hidden, or open a new blank buffer if no other buffers are open.
Thanks!
i do not think so. the only solution which comes to mind is to create a new keybinding which
instead of just closing the current buffer.
Take a look at http://github.com/carlhuda/janus, it's a customised version of vim that let's you keep nerdtree locked on the left. It also includes many other popular plugins like command-t, ctags and ack.
Try bufkill. It's built to solve this exact problem.
Instead of :bd to close your buffer, you use :BD. This prevents the window from being closed just because you killed the buffer. If there isn't another available buffer to replace it with, an empty buffer is opened.
