Function to show if :view is enabled or not

Question

I'm looking for a function to check wether

:view

is set or not.

Couldn't find a function or &option to check this.

Background: Want to toggle view with a new key mapping similar to this question on stackoverflow, but want to have resize panes back to same size if (file-pre)view is disabled.

Answer 1

I checked the sources (in case I forgot something) and looks like results of your search are correct, state of preview isn't exposed anywhere. Will add it as an option ('quickview').

At the moment I can think of a horrific workaround which involves saving vifminfo to get state of the preview, but I'm not sure you'll want to use it.

Somewhat different way might be to set a $VARIABLE whenever you call :view and check it later (how well it will work depends on operations you perform).

Comments

An option for checking the view-state will be the best. Thanks

Writing vifminfo with :write; checking $MYVIFMRC for q1 in the TUI-Section; changing pane-size with <c-w>| or <c-w>= depending on result followed by :view... I will try this as workaround.

Setting a $VARIABLE involves also checking $MYVIFMRC (at least at startup) , so the former workaround will do it until the option is added.

Thanks for fast help and thanks for vifm

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Thanks for adding the quickview option this fast

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Is this option available in 0.9.1?

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No, 0.9.1 was released earlier than it was added.