splitting windows
dear users How can I open four files (eg: file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and file4.txt) for a view as following: VIM ¦file1 ¦file2 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦file3 ¦file4 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ I tried this: with a modeline with :sp - but it don't works and a script with -o and -O, but also this don't works. Has anyone a good idea? Thanks a lot for your help. Raphael -- Analog-/ISDN-Nutzer sparen mit GMX SmartSurfer bis zu 70%! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
Re: splitting windows
How can I open four files (eg: file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and file4.txt) for a view as following: VIM ¦file1 ¦file2 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦file3 ¦file4 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ I tried this: with a modeline with :sp - but it don't works and a script with -o and -O, but also this don't works. Has anyone a good idea? Ugly as it may be, the following worked for me: vi -c 'to sp file1' -c 'bel vsp file2' -c 'wincmd b' -c 'bel vsp file4' file3 The items might put in a script and sourced to make it a bit cleaner...something like bash$ cat four.vim to sp file1 bel vsp file2 wincmd b bel vsp file4 wincmd h e file3 wincmd t bash$ vim -c 'so four.vim' Both seem to do the trick. They're kinda hard-coded, to those file names, and those window positions, but they work. Hope this helps, -tim
Re: splitting windows
Hi Raphael, On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:22:54 +0200 (MEST) "Raphael Brunner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear users > > How can I open four files (eg: file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and > file4.txt) for a view as following: > > VIM > > ¦file1 ¦file2 ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > > ¦file3 ¦file4 ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > > > I tried this: with a modeline with :sp - but it don't works > and a script with -o and -O, but also this don't works. > Has anyone a good idea? > > Thanks a lot for your help. > Raphael > Sessions might be what your after here. (:h sessions) Once you have the layout how you'd like it (ie as you've illustrated above): :mksession /path/to/save/to/sessionName.vim Doesn't help you initially (see Tims reply) but next time you open vim you can: :so /path/to/save/to/sessionName.vim and the session will be restored. Doing this you can have the windows different sizes or in vim 7 files 1,2,3,4 on one tab, files 5,6 on another, and file 7 on yet another. All windows and tabs will be restored when you source sessionName.vim. (Bram's a Genius!) One other thing if you change the session and wish to save it, you need to use: :mksession! /path/to/save/to/sessionName.vim note the ! to overwrite Of course there nothing stopping you saving it as a different session if that's preferred. cheers, -- Mark
Re: splitting windows
On 5/11/06, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I open four files (eg: file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt and > file4.txt) for a view as following: > > VIM > > ¦file1 ¦file2 ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > > ¦file3 ¦file4 ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > ¦ ¦ ¦ > > > I tried this: with a modeline with :sp - but it don't works > and a script with -o and -O, but also this don't works. > Has anyone a good idea? Ugly as it may be, the following worked for me: vi -c 'to sp file1' -c 'bel vsp file2' -c 'wincmd b' -c 'bel vsp file4' file3 The items might put in a script and sourced to make it a bit cleaner...something like bash$ cat four.vim to sp file1 bel vsp file2 wincmd b bel vsp file4 wincmd h e file3 wincmd t bash$ vim -c 'so four.vim' Both seem to do the trick. They're kinda hard-coded, to those file names, and those window positions, but they work. You could also create a session with 4 empty window (with :mksession, or I use my WinWalker.vim to create the layout and save the template as a session). Then a script something like the below should fill the windows. I.e. $ tst.sh file1 file2 file3 file4 However, for some reason I can't find, it seems to eat one of the windows before it gets going, so instead of 4 windows, it only has 3. If the .vim script resulting from the below .sh script is "source"d from inside Vim, it works find. Odd. cat> tst.vim echo 'wincmd w' >> tst.vim done #gvim '-c so tst.vim' gvim -S tst.vim
