Re: Directing which window is changed with :copen

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2017-10-20 21:04, Tim Chase wrote:
>> Long a nagging annoyance, I figured it's time to ask. I frequently
>> will do a :vimgrep on a term under the cursor, but want the
>> resulting navigation to open in a new window.
>
> Digging a little further, it's not quite as capricious/malicious as
> I'd thought. The help does state that it will open in the window
> immediately above the quickfix window. It just usually happens that
> the window I want to preserve is in that position at the bottom of
> my window-stack. I did also encounter ^W_<Enter> which seems to solve
> most of my problems. Though it would be nice to be able to choose
> which window the default <Enter> tromped.
>

Yes. As you found out, the window just above the quickfix window
is used to open a selected file. The 'switchbuf' option can be used to
control which windows/buffers are used by the quickfix jump commands.
It currently doesn't have a 'useprev' option to use the previous window.

- Yegappan

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