On Feb 23, 10:17 pm, howardb21 <howard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there some way one could use only one instance of vim, when editing > files in a plain old unix shell? Only way I can think of, offhand, is > to write a vim shell script that ran instead of vim.exe. Then, vim > filename -- would check if an instance of vim was already running or > suspended. If so, it would first write a little file containing :arge > filename. Then it would execute a fg or exit shell command. In turn > vim would source the little file when it wakes up, via an autocommand > for the shellcmdPost event. > > Any more elegant way to do this?
This may be what you are looking for: X terminal 1: vim --servername THEONE X terminal 2: vim --servername THEONE --remote file_to_edit.txt This should open the file in vim running in terminal 1. Marko -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php