From 810cfea9c8a86174c425220ae2c55e8919c9959e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 16:55:15 +1200
Subject: Adapt :browse :oldfiles mapping into plugin

Just to avoid a hit-enter prompt by limiting it to just short of the
vertical size of the screen, with a temporary array slice of v:oldfiles.
---
 vim/autoload/select_old_files.vim | 7 +++++++
 vim/plugin/select_old_files.vim   | 6 ++++++
 vim/vimrc                         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 vim/autoload/select_old_files.vim
 create mode 100644 vim/plugin/select_old_files.vim

diff --git a/vim/autoload/select_old_files.vim b/vim/autoload/select_old_files.vim
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..518b98d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim/autoload/select_old_files.vim
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+function! select_old_files#() abort
+  let oldfiles = v:oldfiles
+  let limit = get(g:, 'select_old_files_limit', &lines - 1)
+  let v:oldfiles = v:oldfiles[:limit-2]
+  browse oldfiles
+  let v:oldfiles = oldfiles
+endfunction
diff --git a/vim/plugin/select_old_files.vim b/vim/plugin/select_old_files.vim
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dbfbd64c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vim/plugin/select_old_files.vim
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+if exists('loaded_select_old_files')
+  finish
+endif
+let loaded_select_old_files = 1
+command! -bar SelectOldFiles
+      \ call select_old_files#()
diff --git a/vim/vimrc b/vim/vimrc
index e63a232b..2bcf9943 100644
--- a/vim/vimrc
+++ b/vim/vimrc
@@ -1445,7 +1445,7 @@ nnoremap <Leader>j
       \ :<C-U>buffers<CR>:buffer<Space>
 "" Leader,o opens a screenful of :browse :oldfiles, ready for a selection
 nnoremap <Leader>o
-      \ :<C-U>browse :oldfiles<CR>q
+      \ :<C-U>SelectOldFiles<CR>
 
 " This ground defines mappings for filtering and batch operations to clean up
 " buffer text.  All of these mappings use commands from my custom plugins:
-- 
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