vim-multisplit

A vim plugin that overloads window motion keys to adjust window widths.

I like to work with a bunch of vertical source windows open. I like to switch between them and have the current window expand to a workable size. You can do something similar in regular vim by setting the winwidth variable, but multisplit is more careful about balancing the remaining windows. Perhaps you like this too.

Multisplit provides a few new navigation bindings that are very similar to the existing vim bindings. The new bindings adjust window sizes so that the current window is wide enough to work in -- 100 characters by default. The rest of the vertical space is distributed amongst remaining windows.

By default vim overloads the window navigation commands to fix typing mistakes:

eg. CTRL-W l is the same as CTRL-W CTRL-L

Multisplit steals the latter bindings and makes them balanced versions of the original commands. HEre is the full list

Key Bindings

"Navigate left and right
map <C-W><C-l> :MoveSplit l<CR>
map <C-W><C-h> :MoveSplit h<CR>

"Expand the current window
map <C-W><C-i> :ExpandCurrentWindow<CR>

" I like to drill down into a few splits, using tags (<C-W>]) 
" or filenames (<C-W><C-F>) and then Delete the old windows at the edge
map <C-W><C-b> :DeleteLeftmost<CR> 
map <C-W><C-m> :DeleteRightmost<CR>

map <C-W><C-n> :CreateSplit<CR>

Notes

I tested multisplit on vim 7.3, mac and windows, console and gui