dwm.vim adds tiled window management to Vim. It's highly inspired by dwm (Dynamic Window Manager) tiled layouts. Windows are always organised defined by the following layout, consisting of a master pane on the left and a stacked pane on the right.

+------------------+------------------+   +------------------+------------------+
|                  |        S1        |   |                  |        S1        |
|                  | ________________ |   |                  | ---------------- |
|                  |                  |   |        M0        |        S2        |
|        M0        |        S2        |   |                  | ---------------- |
|                  | ________________ |   |                  |        S3        |
|                  |                  |   +------------------+------------------+
|                  |        S3        |   |        qf                           |
+------------------+------------------+   +-------------------------------------+

Fork (detached) from spolu/dwm.vim with fixes and my private contributions.

• :New - spawn a new empty window in the master pane,
• [w]<C-C> :[w]Close - close [w] or current window and adjusts layout,
• [w]<C-@> :[w]Switch - focus [w], current or first window on the master pane,
• :WRR - rotate window layout to the right,
• :WRL - rotate window layout to the left,
• <C-L> :WBR - move center barrier to the right,
• <C-H> :WBL - move center barrier to the left,
• <C-J> - change cursor position to next window,
• <C-K> - change cursor position to previous window.

The QuickFix window stays in place whenever a window operation is done.

• In low-width sessions, automatically do inline resizing of currently-focussed window,
• Tiling modes like Suckless DWM and awesomewm, including floating windows, monocle layout.

Install to ~/.vim/plugin/dwm.vim and ~/.vim/autoload/dwm.vim, or use Vim-Plug, Plug 'QSmally/DWM'.

mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/doc; \
wget -qO ~/.vim/plugin/dwm.vim https://raw.github.com/QSmally/DWM/master/plugin/dwm.vim; \
wget -qO ~/.vim/autoload/dwm.vim https://raw.github.com/QSmally/DWM/master/autoload/dwm.vim; \
wget -qO ~/.vim/doc/dwm.txt https://raw.github.com/QSmally/DWM/master/doc/dwm.txt

You can use curl -so if you prefer it over wget.

• g:dwm_default_keys: if set to a falsey value, prevents key mapping,
• g:dwm_enable_width: total columns in order for DWM behaviour to enable,
• g:dwm_master_pane_width: set the width of the master pane in percentage or columns,
• g:dwm_skip_width/height: (half of) window column in order to ignore window from layout.

To get monocle-like capability, I recommend using taylor/vim-zoomwin:

Plug 'taylor/vim-zoomwin'
nnoremap <silent> <C-q> :ZoomWin<CR>

To get dmenu-like capability, I recommend using ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim (fork from kien/ctrlp.vim):

Plug 'ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim'

To use a mouse to select windows and resize panes:

• set mouse=a: enable the use of the mouse in all modes,
• set ttymouse=xterm2: recognise mouse codes for the xterm2 terminal type.

For fun, I urge you to try using dwm.vim in vim, in tmux, in ssh, in tmux, in xterm, in dwm.

Thanks Uriel (luriel on HackerNews) for this awesome comment on the HN post related to dwm.vim:

As one of the original instigators of dwm and wmii before that (mostly by shouting at garbeam) I want to point out that this kind of tiled window management was first introduced in larswm (that is sadly discontinued), which in turn was heavily inspired by Rob Pike's Acme editing environment ( http://acme.cat-v.org ).

So in a way we have gone full circle, from text editor, to window managers, back to text editor.

That said, I still prefer Acme to vim, but would be really cool if somebody added mouse chording to vim :)