On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:55:33PM EDT, Andrew Maykov wrote: > On 4/20/07, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > "collaboration of N vim instances editing same file" > [there was some text] > >> See the screen(1) man page and search for "multi". > >Are you (Is he) talking about several users concurrently modifying the > >same file(s) .. possibly from different geographic locations? > >I can't think of any valid reason why one lonely user - me for instance > >- would want to fire up several instances of vim to edit the same file. > It can be. For example, in LNX user can edit file in text console, > then switch to X11 and then start editor again to edit the same file, > forgetting that other instance of VIM already launched. I in this case > just do "killall vim"(or "killall -9 vim", depending on mood).
Yeah .. I know .. the recipe for a happy life is good health and a bad memory .. I have neither .. so accounting for folks who happen to be forgetful sounds a bit far-fetched to me .. :-) And should vim take into account the foibles of different categories of users in the first place? Thanks, cga
