begin quoting Christopher Smith as of Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:28:29AM -0700: > Darren New wrote: > >Christopher Smith wrote: > >>Of course, vim will now let you do that. > > > >I hate to mention this, but this was possible long, long before vim > >was around. It's called X Windows. Or any other windowing system. > > > >Why would I want to learn commands specific to one program to open > >windows inside that program?
Well, (g)vimdiff comes to mind. > A couple of people have mentioned this, but using X Windows to do the > job is totally not the same thing. There are distinct advantages that > come from having the same process working on multiple files at the same > time. I guess with reasonably sophisticated IPC mechanisms you could > accomplish the same thing with multiple vis in multiple xterms, but I've > never seen anyone demonstrate this. For cut-and-paste and multiple vi(m)s in multiple xterms, there's xcb that's very useful, and then there's writing to temporary files, and reading in temporary files. Been there, done that. Why set up a complicated IPC mechanism when you have the filesystem right there? -- Not even gvim supports multiple remote vi sessions in the same window. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
