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I too like to have code from multiple logical sections of my projects visible on the same screen at times. Splitting windows in vim works nicely for this purpo
by gurraman 16y ago
I too like to have code from multiple logical sections of my projects visible on the same screen at times.
Splitting windows in vim works nicely for this purpose.
- donaq 16y agoI can see how that would be useful, but I have a question. If you do edits in both windows, how do you save them? Do you just save in one window and reload the other?
- Periodic 16y agoIn vim, when you have the same file open in different windows any changes immediately appear in the other window. They are the same buffer, there are just two windows to it. You can see this by opening a file, and hitting "<Ctrl-W> <Ctrl-S>" to split the window. Do some editing and you'll see it in both places. ":ls" will show only one buffer. And if you have display of the buffer state visible, when you ":w" all the windows will update to say they were saved.
- donaq 16y agoWow, I did not know that. I've always just assumed they'd be different buffers. I'll probably be using this a lot in future. Thanks!