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Surely vim can manage its own display and you don't need multiple terminals each running their own instance?
by thom 5y ago
Surely vim can manage its own display and you don't need multiple terminals each running their own instance?
- gpm 5y agoVim can, but why in the world would I have vim do that itself when that means I have to learn/use both vims windowing system and my window managers windowing system? What advantage does it give me...
- thom 5y agoI spend more time interacting with Emacs than I do my window system, so I am quite happy arranging terminals, database clients, REPLs and code inside that, and there are huge advantages to all those being able to communicate frictionlessly. It'd be very annoying having to constantly multitask.
- gpm 5y agoI feel like emacs makes a much better case for this than vim, because it actually takes advantage of everything being one program (at the expense of rewriting the world, and basically being it's own operating system).
- KaiserPro 5y agoIt can, and sometimes its quite useful. If I have long terminals, I can :split, which is a nice option to have. However a lot of the time the Vims are there for reference.