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Is there a way to "lock" the viewport in vim?

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Mar 15, 20262136 views

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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 wou…

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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.

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Is there a way to "lock" the viewport in vim?

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