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Using i3wm as IDE

First of all, thank all of the developers and the community for making i3wm such a great window manager. i3wm totally changed my workflow and made me much more productive at work.
One thing is that I've tried layout files before but I have never get a chance to apply it to my workflow. Everything during everyday work is dynamic and I open window one at a time, not all of them altogether. I may have to close and reopen windows very often. It finally came to this setup that arranges ranger, vim and tmux/urxvt/zsh. It's a very hacky solution and I sincerely hope there is better way to achieve this. Please share your thought if you have any ideas.

This involves:

i3 config: a lot of for_window [...] and regex
customized ranger python functions
customized bash script to start ranger, vimserver and tmux
vim-like marks on those three windows

What it can do:

ranger, vim, tmux, zsh are native, they are only kind of "grouped" by i3/vimserver/tmux
reduces left/right gaps when ranger starts
ranger, vim, and tmux restarts in the same place, no matter what is currently opened and what is the order of opening these windows
- Ranger is 20% width on the left, vim & tmux is tabbed layout on the right
ranger goes back to the last visited directory when reopened
open files from ranger to vim as edit (current buffer) / split / vsplit / tab
supports opening multiple files from ranger to vim to some extent
open zsh in tmux under current ranger path (split / vsplit / tab)
layout is persistent through i3 restart
etc...

Requirement

i3-gaps
ranger
vim
- (optional) ctrlp
zsh
urxvt
tmux
jq
xdotool
(optional) fasd
(optional) peco
(optional) fzf

Keybinding & Behavior

The keybindings and behaviors can be changed in the corredsponding files listed in each section.

ranger

Related files: ranger/rc.conf, ranger/command.py, bin/ranger_vi, bin/ranger_zsh

ve: edit file in vim with current buffer
vv: open file(s) in vim with vertical split
vs: open file(s) in vim with horizontal split
vt: open file(s) in vim with new tab (and then vsplit if multiple files are selected)

sv: open zsh in current path with vertical split
ss: open zsh in current path with horizontal split
st: open zsh in current path with new tab
sc: open zsh in current path with new tab # similar to tmux prefix+c

space: toggle selection for current file
V: toggle VISUAL mode

z space: fasd to folder; requires fasd
ctrl-p: open popup window listing most recently used files. By selecting the file(s), it/they will be open in vim 
        with new tab (and then vsplit if multiple files are selected)
        requires peco & vim ctrlp plugin

i3wm

Related files: i3/config*

mod+m: Mark mode (single char)
mod+': Goto mode (single char)
mod+hjkl: focus left, down, up, right

vim

Related files: bin/ranger_vi, .vimrc

Normal mode:
  qq: :qa
  qt: :tabclose

zsh

Related files: .zshrc

qq: exit
ctrl-p: open popup window listing most recently used files. By selecting the file(s), it/they will be open in vim 
        with new tab (and then vsplit if multiple files are selected)
        requires peco & vim ctrlp plugin

Ricing

The whole desktop env. looks like: https://imgur.com/a/WJSv5Le

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