After some time with emacs I’m back to Vim. This time I’m using Neovim to see what it has to offer.

One thing that I found myself trying to do a couple of days ago was to try to move a set of files into a different folder from inside netrw (which is the file explorer for Vim). Renaming each file one by one was not an option, so I digged a bit on the Vim’s help to see what could I find.

It turns out netrw has a move comand which you can invoke on a set of selected files by using mm… problem is that it needs quite some setup for it to work and it took me some time to realize how to do it:

  1. Find the destination folder on netrw and mark it with mt this will set it as the target of the move.
  2. Find the files you want to move and mark each one of them with mf.
  3. Tell netrw that the original file’s folder is the current folder with :cd
  4. In netrw use mm in any of the marked files.

That would move the files to where you want. You can check the help in Vim itself with :h netrw-mm but it doesn’t tell you about the :cd part, which is the one I was missing and was failing with a strange message about not being able to move the files.

Honestly, too hard to be comfortable at all. I also don’t think this works with files from different folders.