Lusty stops working when leaving its buffer with the mouse

[rogutes]

I use ":set mouse=a".

1. vim -c LustyBufferExplorer
2. Click on the buffer I am editing.
3. Press CTRL-W o.
4. LustyBufferExplorer doesn't work any more.

This has accidentally happened several times and I couldn't figure out how to open Lusty without restarting vim.

[sjbach]

Thanks. I'd recommend not navigating away from the explorer window while it's in use. If you do navigate away, I'd recommend not using Ctrl-w o to close the explorer window; it's important to kill the explorer naturally, i.e. by going back to the window with Ctrl-w j or whatever, and then Ctrl-c.

The right thing to do is add a Vim autocmd to kill the explorer when its window is closed, but this is tricky to get right.

[rogutes]

Thanks for the explanation. Somewhere in the VIM User manual there is this sentence:

Frequently when you are typing, your fingers get ahead of your brain.

And this is exactly the problem: once I accidentally navigate away with the mouse, I automatically press Ctrl-w o (happened 3 times in the last month; could blame the touchpad of course). Isn't there a manual way to reopen the LustyExplorer window after such an "accident" (:unlet something)?

[sjbach]

Depending on your settings, you can reopen the buffer with :b, but it seems to be in an uncertain state at that point and I can't see how to make it close cleanly. It's really better to have it clean up after itself, as LustyExplorer sets some non-local options and remaps keys, so you're left with an unreliable environment. gross.

I agree that's not ideal, but I'd be more inclined to treat the cause rather than the symptoms. The plugin should close itself when its window is killed; someone just has to make it do that well. :-)