>From another mailing list. Is there a problem using tabs on the same file?
---Zdenek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Princz Sent: 17 May 2006 13:53 To: Vim Outliner User and Developer Mailing List Subject: Re: [Vimoutliner] I have a windows installation issue. Sean, On 12/05/06, Sean Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 12:51, Tim Roberts wrote: > > It has tabbed editing ("tabs" in the Firefox sense, not in the "tab key" > > Yeah. Tabs was the big thing, for me. I don't know that 7.0 has much to > offer Outliner, specifically. I haven't really dug into many of the new > features. > > > proramming languages, and it understand zip files. There are a lot of > > bug fixes, but I have not yet seen anything to convince me that 7.0 is a > > must-have upgrade (unlike 6.0). I'm still happy with 6.3. > > Tabs, dude. Tabs. > > Seriously, though, I've always been a little uncomfortable working with Vim > buffers. I've always found it to take too many keystrokes, or take too much > screen space, to keep track of vim buffers. Tab support solves this for me, > and has the added benefit that each tab is its own view, meaning you can have > different split layouts and flip between them easily. > > Taaaaaabs. > > --- SER > I agree with you: tabs are one of the great improvements in the vim7 release. (But, to be honest, there are many others, maybe even more important ones for some.) However, to stay ontopic, I live in a one and only huge outliner file ("BrainDump.otl" :), which -for now- contains even its' own archive (:-o). Sometimes it is a pain to navigate quickly between different parts of it. (Hoisting is not a solution for this problem.) So far I've been using :split to open several windows to the same buffer, but now in vim7 I tried the tabs. It is a very preliminary observation but it seems to work perfectly until you yank from one tab to the other, then the second tab becomes garbled. (Note: both tabs show the same buffer, the same file.) Luckily it is garbled on the display only, not the file itself. Also it can report ambigously on the tabs whether the file is saved or dirty. So in short: for now I try to be careful and use tabs on experimental outline files only, but went back to the good old :split with my BrainDump. :( (I even kept 6.4 installed for a while, I spend my day in vim and can't risk.) Let me add this: I haven't had the time yet to read thru all the documentation of vim7 related to tabs, just started using it minutes after installing it... :) Will let you know how I progress, if you don't mind. Have a nice day, Peter -- Keep cool. Develop in total darkness. _______________________________________________ VimOutliner mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lists.vimoutliner.org/mailman/listinfo/vimoutliner
